Provides training in critical reading and writing. Students will study the structure and presentation of ideas, practice analyzing texts and developing logical arguments about them, and author clear and coherent sentences, paragraphs, and short academic essays.

Load equivalent to a 3-credit course.

50:350:101-102 English Composition I,II (R) (3,3) Instruction and practice in writing expository prose, including a documented research report. Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test or successful completion of 50:350:099.

50:350:160 Texts and Theories (W) (3) Survey of critical approaches to reading and writing about literary texts.

50:350:220 Introduction to Literary Study (W) (3) Survey of research sources and critical approaches to be used in reading and writing about literary texts, including materials available on the Internet. Prerequisite: 50:350:101. Curriculum 50:350 students only.

50:350:221 Literatures in English I (3) Historical survey of literatures written in English (primarily British and American literatures) from the Middle Ages through 1660.

50:350:222 Literatures in English II (3) Historical survey of literatures written in English (primarily British and American literatures) from 1660 to 1900.

50:350:223 Literatures in English III (3) Survey of 20th-century literatures written in English, with emphasis on colonial and postcolonial themes.

50:350:228 Nobel-Winning Authors (G) (3) Selected readings from the works of authors who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

50:350:230 Literature and Style (3) Readings from writers and critics about how writers relate to their public, with an examination of the politics of literary reputation and fashion.

50:350:239 World Masterpieces II (G) (3) Studies in great works of world literature from the dawn of the modern era to the present.

50:350:245 Folklore (D) (3) The major genres of folklore, including proverb, folktale, and folk song, with some attention to the methods of collecting and analyzing these materials.

50:350:309 Reading and Writing in the Elementary Curriculum (3) Analysis of the forms of discourse used by various academic disciplines in elementary education, including the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and mathematics.

50:350:310 Reading and Writing in the Secondary Curriculum (3) Analysis of the forms of discourse used by various academic disciplines in secondary education, including the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and mathematics.

50:350:313 Classical Backgrounds of English Literature (3) The influence on English and American literature of classical Greek and Roman epic, tragedy, comedy, and other literary forms.

50:350:314 Biblical Backgrounds of English Literature (3) The influence of the King James and other versions of the Bible on English and American literature.

50:350:316 Medieval Literature (3) Survey of literature, from Beowulf through the 15th century: plays, songs, adventure narrative, religious allegory, and other genres.

50:350:317 English Renaissance Literature (3) A study of major authors, including More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Donne.

50:350:318 Seventeenth-Century Literature (3) A study of major writers in the age of metaphysical wit and emerging new philosophies: Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Burton, Browne, and Bunyan.

50:350:321 Eighteenth-Century Literature (3) Major themes and writers in English from Dryden to Wollstonecraft, emphasizing the emergence of women as writers and readers of literature.

50:350:322 Romantic Period (3) Literature of the Age of Revolution: major works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

50:350:324 Victorian Literature (3) A thematic and analytic approach to the major prose and poetry of the period, with emphasis on the works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, and Ruskin.

50:350:330 Chaucer (3) Critical analysis of The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and selected shorter works.

50:350:331 Shakespeare I (3) A study of selected comedies, history plays, and tragedies of the Elizabethan period (to 1603).

50:350:332 Shakespeare II (3) A study of the plays of the Jacobean period (from 1603 on), with particular emphasis on the tragedies.

50:350:333 Milton (3) A study of the minor poems, selected prose, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.

50:350:334 The Bible as Literature (3) A study of the Bible, its literary variety, and historical and religious development.

50:350:335 Intellectual Backgrounds of 20th-Century Literature (3) A study of the major works of 20th-century literature in the context of the great intellectual achievements of the past two centuries.

50:350:338 Literature and the Natural Environment I (3) Traces perceptions of nature and the roots of current environmental attitudes from ancient literature to post-Enlightenment nature writing, with emphasis on British literature from 1400-1800.

50:350:339 Literature and the Natural Environment II (3) Looks at British, American, and Native-American nature writing since 1800 and considers how perceptions and uses of the natural world affect both nonhuman nature and the human communities within it.

50:350:342 Modern British Poetry (3) A study of the major poets of our century, with emphasis on Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and Dylan Thomas.

50:350:345 Comic Literature (3) A study of the comic tradition in British and American literature, including such writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Fielding, Byron, Dickens, Mark Twain, Shaw, and Waugh, as well as some contemporary humorists.

50:350:346 World Drama (G) (3) A survey of drama throughout the world from Western and non-Western classics to forerunners of modern realism.

50:350:348 Literature of Horror (3) A study of the horror story from its Gothic origins to its present popularity in fiction and film.

50:350:349 English Drama to 1642 (3) English drama (exclusive of Shakespeare) from its origins in medieval pageantry through its Elizabethan flowering to its decadence and the Puritan closing of the theaters.

50:350:351 English Drama, 1660-1800 (3) The English theater from the Restoration to the emergence of sentimental and "laughing" comedy.

50:350:353 Modern Drama (G) (3) The background of the contemporary theater explored in the works of major European and British dramatists from Ibsen and Chekhov to Brecht and Beckett.

50:350:354 Postcolonial Literature (G) (3) Focuses on modern literary works written in English from one or two areas of the world formerly under imperial subjugation. Situates those works in a historical context centered on the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. (Formerly 50:352:353)

50:350:356 Rise of the Novel (3) Selected novels of the 18th century with emphasis on Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Austen.

50:350:357 Nineteenth-Century British Novel (3) Readings in the Victorian novel: Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, Thackeray, Meredith, and George Eliot.

50:350:358 Modern British Fiction (3) Development of the modern novel through examination of the works of the major writers of the century, with emphasis on Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, and Beckett.

50:350:360 Literature of Childhood (G) (3) A study of classic and contemporary literature read and enjoyed by children and adolescents, including fairy tales, folklore, fantasy, picture books, chapter books, the adolescent novel, and poetry. (Formerly 50:350:246)

50:350:361 Literary and Cultural Constructions of Childhood (D) (3) A study of changing representations of childhood in literary and cultural texts, including the impact of childhood on imagination, intellectual, and aesthetic traditions.

50:350:362 Children's Literature in Print and Film (3) Selected texts in children's literature studied alongside film adaptations of these texts.

50:350:364 The Short Story (3) A study of the short story as a literary genre by examining the works of major world authors.

50:350:365 Science Fiction (3) A study of major works of science fiction by such authors as Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, LeGuin, and Ellison.

50:350:367 Popular Culture (3) A study of literature as it has been influenced by such elements of popular culture as best sellers, magazines, newspapers, film, radio, and television.

50:350:370 Biography and Autobiography (3) Exploration of the nature of these genres in works primarily British and American by such authors as Augustine, Boswell, Rousseau, Wordsworth, and Henry James.

50:350:371 Literature of Travel (3) A study of why people leave home and how they challenge the borderlines between fact and fiction while converting life into literature.

50:350:372 Anglo-Irish Literature (3) A study of the major figures of the Irish literary renaissance, including Yeats, Synge, O'Casey, and Joyce.

50:350:374 Legends Past and Present (G) (3) Narratives of heroes, quests, supernatural occurrences, and other extraordinary activities of humans past and present, focusing on Germanic, Celtic, and Native-American cultures.

50:350:375 Detective Fiction (3) The development of this popular literary genre from its beginnings in Poe's short stories through the present, with varying emphasis on American, British, and European authors, among them Doyle, Chandler, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Borges.

50:350:376 Literature and Psychology (3) Psychological interpretation of the literary text; the psychology of composition and of reader response.

50:350:377 Literature and Sexuality (3)

Sexual themes, fictions, and fantasies in English and American literature: the distinction between pornographic and nonpornographic erotic writing, the grotesque, the violent, and the romantic.

50:350:378 Religion in Literature (3) A study of religious themes in British and American literature from the 17th century to the present.

50:350:380 Mythology (G) (3) Narratives of interaction between human and divine, as retold in literature and cultures including ancient Greek and Judeo-Christian.

50:350:381 Literature and War (3) How the subject of war shapes literary responses and techniques. Writers include Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Crane, Owen, and Heller.

50:350:388 Women in Literature (D) (3) Analyzes the treatment of women in selected world fiction, drama, poetry, and essays.

50:350:389,390 International Studies (G) (3,3) A short-term study tour abroad focusing on a literary theme, with class lectures, required readings, and written assignments.

50:350:391,392 Special Topics in Literature (1-3,1-3)

A course in a specially selected topic. Satisfies major requirement "British literature before 1800."

Primarily, but not exclusively, for advanced students. Courses with different topics may be repeated for credit.

50:350:393,394 Special Topics in Literature (1-3,1-3) A course in a specially selected topic. Satisfies major requirement "British literature after 1800." Primarily, but not exclusively, for advanced students. Courses with different topics may be repeated for credit.

50:350:395,396 Special Topics in Literature (1-3,1-3) A course in a specially selected topic. Satisfies major requirement "cross-cultural perspectives." Primarily, but not exclusively, for advanced students. Courses with different topics may be repeated for credit.

50:350:397 Special Topics: Great Literary Origins (3) A theme in some great works of the Western literary traditions.

50:350:407,408 Independent Study in English (BA,BA) An opportunity for advanced students to work individually with an instructor on a self-determined course of study. The project culminates in a substantial paper.

50:350:410 Methods and Issues in Secondary English Education (3) Using primary texts as the basis for identifying its methods, focus is on curriculum development, delivery of course content, classroom management, use of assignments, and the relationship between grades and standards.

50:350:411 Old English Language and Literature (3) An introduction to the reading and analysis of Old English, including Beowulf.

50:350:415,416 Seminar in Literature (3,3) An opportunity for juniors and seniors to pursue advanced study of literature in a small group format.

50:350:431 World Novel to 1900 (G) (3) Major novels selected from such world literatures as Russian, French, Spanish, Japanese, and German, read in translation.

50:350:432 World Novel in the 20th Century (G) (3) Major novels from the literatures of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the East, read in translation.

50:350:441 Literary Theory and Criticism (3) A study of major approaches to literature ranging from Plato and Aristotle to the present.

50:350:481,482 Readings in Major Authors (3,3) An intensive study of the works of a single author, or of two or three related authors. Satisfies major requirement "British literature before 1800."

50:350:483,484 Readings in Major Authors (3,3) An intensive study of the works of a single author, or of two or three related authors. Satisfies major requirement "British literature after 1800."

50:350:495,496 Honors Program in English (3,3)

50:350:497,498 Internship in English (3,3) Application of English skills in a volunteer or professional employment setting. Individually designed and evaluated experience under supervision of intern adviser. Commitment of at least 100 hours.