21&62:350:101-102English Composition (3,3) 101: Analytical writing based on nonfiction readings. Emphasis on revising skills and critical thinking. Students must demonstrate the ability to write accurately, coherently, and thoughtfully in response to representative university-level readings. 102: Extensive analytical writing based on literary texts, including fiction, poetry, and drama. Introduction to library resources and to writing that incorporates research. Open to students on basis of placement test only. 21&62:350:101-102 is the introductory composition sequence for students who have not completed 6 credits in English composition at another institution. Prerequisite: For entry into 21&62:350:102 students must have completed 21&62:350:101 with a grade of C or better. |
21&62:350:103-104Honors English Composition (3,3) In lieu of 21&62:350:101-102, this course carries well-prepared students beyond the limits of the regular first-year program. Designed for highly qualified first-year students. |
21&62:350:121-122Expository Writing I,II (3,3) 121: Analytical writing based on nonfiction readings from a variety of disciplines. Review of writing fundamentals, with stress on revising and editing. Emphasis on the ability to summarize accurately and respond thoughtfully to representative university-level material. 122: Extensive analytical writing based on fiction and nonfiction readings. Emphasis on the development of arguments and the ability to write about readings in relation to one another. Introduction to library resources and to research papers appropriate for various fields of study. 21&62:350:121-122 is primarily intended for transfer students who have previously completed 6 credits of writing instruction and need to develop further their writing skills. Prerequisite: For entry into 21&62:350:122, students must have completed 21&62: 350:121 with a grade of C or better. |
21&62:350:205Fiction into Film (3) The responses of the English language and its literary conventions to the special demands of film. |
21&62:350:215,216Literary Masterpieces (3,3) Introduction to great works of world literature; develops the ability to read with understanding and to enjoy literature that appeals to educated and mature readers. Correlated with advanced writing to extend the composition training of 21&62:350: 101-102 or 21&62:350:121-122. See also 21&62:350:275,276. |
21&62:350:221,222Survey of English Literature (3,3) Literature of the British Isles, from its beginnings to the 20th century. |
21&62:350:227,228Special Topics for Nonmajors (3,3) Courses in the "strictly for nonmajors" track are more interdisciplinary and multicultural than traditional English courses to complement students of the sciences, social sciences, and professions. While the syllabi include important literature and film, emphasis falls on relating the works to a wide range of human experiences, dilemmas, and endeavors. |
21&62:350:247,248Forces in Modern Literature (3,3) Focuses on the relationships between imaginative literature and some of the main social, political, and scientific forces in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
21&62:350:254Literature and Politics in the Third World (3) Revolutionary movements and literatures of the peoples and nations of the third world. The development of national liberation and socialist revolution in the historical context of colonization and its aftermath. Detailed exploration of exemplary literature and film from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. |
21&62:350:275,276Honors Literary Masterpieces (3,3) Similar to but somewhat more challenging than 21&62:350:215,216. Prerequisite: Permission of department chairperson. |
21&62:350:302Writing with Computers (3) An advanced writing course with emphasis on how computers serve the needs of academic, technical, creative, or business writers; computer techniques for writing dissertations, theses, scholarly articles, term papers, or pedagogic materials; handling scientific, foreign language, or graphics materials; business writing integrating spreadsheets and database programs into correspondence, reports, and proposals. See the Schedule of Classes for each term; special emphasis sections are limited to designated majors. Prerequisites: 21&62:350:101-102 or equivalent. |
21&62:350:303Writing for Business and the Professions (3) Development of skills in analysis and writing of articles, essays, reports, reviews, and interviews, with exploration of individual abilities and interests. Prerequisites: 21&62:350:101-102 or equivalent. |
21&62:350:306Advanced Exposition (3) How to plan, revise, edit, and document lucid and persuasive preprofessional and professional memoranda, articles, reports, and research papers; meticulous evaluation of student writings; conferences. Prerequisites: 21&62:350:101-102 or equivalent. |
21&62:350:308Foundations of Literary Study (3) Provides English majors with a firm foundation in the terms, concepts, and issues of literary analysis. Reading includes selections from the major genres (poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction prose) together with a variety of critical and historical approaches. Projects introduce students to the goals and methods of literary research, including the use of computers, and provide practice in writing about literature. |
21&62:350:310English Grammar (3) Advanced English grammar; a survey of transformational-generative approaches, with attention to classroom practice and problems, including dialects of black English, English as a second language, and remedial English. |
21&62:350:311Seventeenth-Century Literature (3) A study of nondramatic prose and poetry from 1600 to 1660, exclusive of Milton; attention given to historical background. |
21&62:350:313The Art of Satire (3) History, theory, and practice from Jonson to the present. |
21&62:350:315,316English Renaissance Literature (3,3) A study of nondramatic prose and poetry from 1500 to 1600; readings from the works of More, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Gascoigne, Lyly, Nashe, and Deloney. |
21&62:350:317Readings in the English Pre-Romantics (3) Survey of the quest for new literary forms, in poetry and prose, from James Thomson to William Godwin. |
21&62:350:318English Biography and Autobiography in the 18th Century (3) Brief survey of the field from Plutarch through the 18th century; the theory and practice of biography and autobiography in writers such as Colley, Cibber, Fielding, Hume, Gibbon, Goldsmith, Jonson, and Boswell. |
21&62:350:319,320Shakespeare (3,3) A sampling of history, tragedy, comedy, and romance in plays representing the span of Shakespeare`s creative life. |
21&62:350:323,324English Drama to 1642, Aside from Shakespeare (3,3) From the beginnings of English drama-miracle and morality plays, interludes-to the work of Shakespeare`s contemporaries and successors. |
21&62:350:325,326The 18th Century (3,3) First term: Swift, Pope, and their contemporaries; second term: the period of Jonson. |
21&62:350:329,330The Romantic Period (3,3) First term: works of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; second term: works of Byron, Shelley, Keats, and their contemporaries. |
21&62:350:331The Art of the Film (3) The viewing, analysis, and discussion of selected motion pictures by such directors as Griffith, Eisenstein, Ford, Huston, Welles, Bergman, Fellini, Buñuel, and Kurosawa; some films studied in relation to their literary sources. |
21&62:350:332American Film (3) The dominant tendencies in the rise of American film from the silent era to the present, with emphasis on comedy, the western, and the gangster-thriller. |
21&62:350:333,334The Victorian Period (3,3) Poetry and prose of the years 1832 to 1900; social, political, and artistic background of the period. |
21&62:350:337,338Topics in Literature (3,3) Social conflict, personal values, urban problems, technology; relation of literature to mythology, psychology, and philosophy. A different theme or topic each term. |
21&62:350:339,340Major Writers of the 20th Century (3,3) Backgrounds of modern British and American literature; major prose writers and poets of our century. First term: works produced between 1900 and 1939; second term: works from World War II to contemporary writing. |
21&62:350:341Mythology in Literature (3) Mythology from the ancient cultures influential in later literature and thought. Topics include the birth of the gods, the creation of the universe, love sacred and profane, the cult of the hero, and visions of the afterlife. |
21&62:350:342Modern English Poetry (3) Poetry from the 1920s to the present: Eliot, Auden, Spenser, Thomas, Hughes, Larkin, and others. |
21&62:350:343The Bible as Literature I (3) A study of the Bible, its literary variety, and historical and religious development in the Old Testament. |
21&62:350:344The Bible as Literature II (3) A study of the Bible, its literary variety, and historical and religious development in the New Testament. |
21&62:350:345,346Modern Drama (3,3) Dramatic literature beginning with the advent of realism in the 1860s; European, English, Irish, and American plays studied, with attention to major movements and the philosophical and artistic forces which produced them. First term: plays by Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Wilde, Shaw, and O`Neill; second term: works by Brecht, Pirandello, Beckett, Hellman, Miller, Williams, and Genet. |
21&62:350:349,350The English Novel (3,3) Beginnings and development through the 19th century; first term: novels by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Goldsmith, Sterne, Godwin, and Lewis; second term: works by Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, and Butler. |
21&62:350:351,352Survey of World Literature (3,3) A survey, through translations, of significant works in world literature and their influence on Western thought. |
21&62:350:353,354Modern and Contemporary English Novel (3,3) English fiction from 1900 to the present. Selected works of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, A.S. Byatt, and Pat Barker illustrate formal shifts linked to social and economic changes. Questions are posed about narratives and how to read and write novels. |
21&62:350:355The Technique of Poetry (3) A study of metrical structure, the development of poetic form, and poetry in relation to other forms of literary expression. |
21&62:350:356Caribbean Literature (3) Familiarizes the student with the basic themes and issues of Caribbean societies as represented in literature. The choice of texts reflects the linguistic and radical diversity of Caribbean cultures, as well as emphasizing the links among them. |
21&62:350:360Topics in Women and Literature (3) The images and writing styles of women`s poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction prose in different cultures; common themes and variations connected with class, ethnic, racial, and other differences; use and revision of conventions and stereotypes by both male and female writers. |
21&62:350:361Women in Literature (3) Selected literature by women that focuses specifically on women; works by Marge Piercy, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Walker, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Emphasis on changing and continuous notions of womanhood and their formal representation in fiction; particular paradigms employed are female identity and the novel of female development. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. |
21&62:350:362Women in Literature (3) Selected literature by women that focuses specifically on women; works by Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison examined. Emphasis on changing and continuous notions of womanhood and their formal representation in fiction; particular paradigms employed are marriage and the community of women. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. |
21&62:350:363,364Special Topics in Film (3,3) Topics change from year to year; topics include themes (e.g., women in film, the war film); studies in a major director (e.g., Bergman, Ford, Fellini, Hitchcock); national cinemas other than the American film; and film theory and criticism. Prerequisite: At least 3 credits in a college-level film course. |
21&62:350:365World Drama to 1900 (3) A survey of drama throughout the world, from the Greek classics to forerunners of modern realism. |
21&62:350:368Restoration and 18th-Century Drama (3) English drama from Dryden to Sheridan, with emphasis on theatrical backgrounds. |
21&62:350:371Milton (3) Literary and social backgrounds; the life of Milton, and his English and Latin works (the latter in translation). |
21&62:350:373Chaucer (3) Literary and social backgrounds; the life of Chaucer, Chaucer`s language, and extensive reading of his works. |
21&62:350:375Writing Nonfiction (3) Workshop survey of nonfictional forms, including autobiography, oral history, case study, and factual narrative; nonfiction writing projects, workshop discussion, individual consultations, and, where appropriate, collaboration in writing projects with other disciplines. Prerequisites: 21&62:350:101-102 or equivalent. |
21&62:350:377Science Fiction, Technology, and Society (3) Science fiction as a principal cultural expression of the impact of science and technology on society from the Industrial Revolution to the present and future. |
21&62:350:378Middle English Literature, Aside from Chaucer (3) Survey of medieval English literature from 1200 to 1500, with emphasis on the romances, popular ballads, lyrics, dramas, and religious and political allegories; selections read in modernized versions. |
21&62:350:379Computers and Literature (3) The use and image of computers in literature and literary study; word processing, online retrieval, computer-assisted instruction and learning (CAI and CAL), artificial intelligence (AI), and information technology (IT); how computers parse sentences, write machine poetry, make literary indexes, create concordances, and do stylistic analyses; the image of computers and other intelligent technology in imaginative literature, with readings by Swift, Blake, Butler, Huxley, Orwell, Clarke, Asimov, Burgess, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Lessing, Joyce, and Dylan Thomas. Prerequisites: 21&62:350:101-102 or equivalent. |
21&62:350:380The European Renaissance and English Literature (3) Historical background and significant works of European literature during the rise of humanism and the Reformation; emphasis on their relation to contemporary English literature. |
21&62:350:381The Short Story (3) Reading and critical study of classical, medieval, and modern short stories; discussion of predominant techniques and theories. |
21&62:350:382James Joyce (3) A survey of Joyce`s writings; intensive study of some major works. |
21&62:350:385Eighteenth- and 19th-Century Drama (3) English drama and its background from Farquhar to Wilde. |
21&62:350:391Writing for Publication (3) Advanced feature and article writing; students function as editorial board, discussing ideas for news features and magazine articles, and offering constructive criticism to each member-writer; students must produce a newspaper feature and a magazine article; the process is from query letter to finished feature and article. Prerequisite: Writing sample must be presented to instructor before registration. Credit not given for both this course and 21&62:570:391. |
21&62:350:393,394Studies in Literary Relations (3,3) Critical relations between works of different periods or genres; the variety of literary responses to a given historical moment; the relation of English and American literature to its intellectual and social origins; the effects of literary works on society. Various special topics film courses (e.g., studies in film genre or the works of a director) also are offered. |
21&62:350:395Nuclear War and Literature (3) The development of nuclear weapons in culture and history from their first appearance as fiction in the first decade of the 20th century through the imagined futures that now form part of everyday life. Readings of works from Japan, the United States, the former Soviet Union, and other nations. Credit not given for both this course and 21&62: 050:395. |
21&62:350:398Literature of Protest (3) Literary works of several nations and eras; themes include economic, political, or social injustice and oppression; authors include Blake, Dos Passos, Gaskell, Mill, Shaw, Silone, Sinclair, Solzhenitsyn, Swift, and Thoreau. |
21&62:350:405,406Major Victorian Authors (3,3) Intensive study of two or more Victorian writers each term; the relation of their work to the intellectual and historical background of their times. |
21&62:350:407,408Independent Study in English (3,3) Designed for students who wish to pursue literary studies (and who do not qualify for the Honors Program 21&62:350: 495,496) outside the scope of existing courses. The student must interest a faculty member in supervising the project, convince him or her that the student has the ability to do the work, and then submit a written request to the department chairperson naming the consenting faculty supervisor. All other arrangements are determined by the student and supervisor. Prerequisite: Permission of program adviser. See also 21&62:350:495,496. |
21&62:350:411Development of the English Language (3) Historical study of Old, Middle, and Modern English, with a survey of lexicography. |
21&62:350:415,416Seminar in Literature (3,3) Course material is specialized and changes from year to year. Some appropriate subjects include politics and fiction, theories and forms of tragedy, the Irish Renaissance. Prerequisites and topic to be determined by instructor. |
21&62:350:417,418Literary Criticism (3,3) Important concepts of literary value; first term: the beginnings and development through the early 19th century; second term: more recent trends. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. |
21&62:350:419,420Authors (3,3) Intensive study of the life and works of one or more major authors; possible authors include Dickens, Faulkner, Pound, Eliot, Frost, Yeats, Hawthorne, and Melville. |
21&62:350:429,430Aspects of the European Novel (3,3) Selected writings by Stendhal, Dostoevski, Conrad, Proust, and Malraux; development of the art of fiction. Prerequisites: 21&62:350:215,216 or equivalent. |
21&62:350:431The World Novel to 1900 (3) Major novels selected from the world`s literatures, such as the Russian, French, Spanish, Japanese, and German, read in translation. |
21&62:350:432The World Novel in the 20th Century (3) Major novels from the literatures of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the East, read in translation. |
21&62:350:433Asian-American Literature (3) Students are introduced to the most important works and issues in the emergence of Asian-American literature; covered are Chinese-American, Japanese-American, Korean-American, Filipino-American, and Indian-American works, among others; readings from Bulosan, Sone, Hong-Kingston, Mukherjee, Hwang, and Tan. |
21&62:350:449,450Popular Culture (3,3) A history of the popular book, newspapers, magazines, photography, film, radio, television, and other media as they have influenced and been influenced by literature, commencing with the 18th and 19th centuries in the first term and continuing to the present in the second term. |
21:350:458,459Internship (3,3) Placement in an appropriate publishing, public relations, or media firm for 8 to 10 hours per week; a journal reflecting each working day`s activities plus a paper to be agreed upon by the academic supervisor and the intern. |
21&62:350:461Creative Writing (3) Introduction to the elements of fiction. Exercises and practice in learning the basic tools of fiction writing and how to use them to tell a story. |
21&62:350:462Creative Writing (3) Advanced course in recognizing and applying the elements of fiction and shaping them into various forms of story. Prerequisite: 21&62:350:461 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:350:463,464Creative Writing: Poetry (3,3) Creative workshop in the forms of poetry and verse. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. |
21&62:350:467Recent Trends in British Drama (3) An analysis of post-World War II British dramatic literature; emphasis on theatrical movements, major figures, and major plays; topics include the "new realism" and the development of the antihero as a dramatic character; readings from Arden, Bond, Delaney, Orton, Osborne, Pinter, and Stoppard. |
21&62:350:469,470Literary Genres (3,3) Readings in the development of a single literary form or type each term (e.g., tragedy, comedy, fantasy, romance, epic, detective fiction). |
21&62:350:479Major British Authors I (3) Selected British literature from Beowulf to Pope. |
21&62:350:480Major British Authors II (3) Selected British literature from Blake to T.S. Eliot. May be taken independent of 21&62:350:479. |
21&62:350:481Readings in a Major Author (3) An intensive study of the works of a single author whose name is announced in the term preceding the course offering; Faulkner, Joyce, the Brontës, and O`Neill recently offered. |
21&62:350:482Readings in a Major Author (3) Supplements 21&62:350:481 and uses a similar approach. May be taken independent of 21&62:350:481. |
21&62:350:495,496Honors Program-Studies in Literature (3,3) The pursuit of special projects outside the scope of any of the existing courses under the guidance of a member of the department. The student must interest a faculty member in supervising the project and then submit a written request to the department chairperson naming the consenting faculty supervisor. All other arrangements are determined by student and supervisor. Open only to honors students. Prerequisite: Permission of program adviser. See also 21&62:350:407,408. |
21&62:350:497,498Honors Project-English (3,3) Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and permission of department chairperson. |
