21&62:352:222Major American Writers (3) Intensive study of the works of two or more major American writers. Open to qualified first-year students with permission of instructor or department chairperson. |
21&62:352:223,224Survey of American Literature (3,3) The effects of intellectual and social changes, and the relationship between important authors and their times. American literature to the Civil War in the first term, continuing to the present in the second term. Open to sophomores and juniors. Can be taken as elective toward English major. |
21&62:352:300,301American Poetry (3,3) American poetry and its backgrounds, critical standards, and techniques from the 17th century to the present. |
21&62:352:333American Drama (3) A survey of American plays in their historical context from early melodramas, romances, and comedies through the modern realistic and expressionistic work of O`Neill, Odets, Anderson, Hellman, Miller, Williams, Albee, Baraka, and others. |
21&62:352:337,338American Literature of the 19th Century (3,3) Studies in two or more related authors; emphasis on Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, or Melville in the first term and on Whitman, Twain, James, or Dickinson in the second term. |
21&62:352:343,344American Literature of the 20th Century (3,3) Major fiction, poetry, and other writing by Dreiser, Anderson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, O`Neill, Dos Passos, Frost, Faulkner, or other recent American authors. |
21&62:352:348,349Minorities in American Literature (3,3) First term: poetry, short fiction, autobiographies, and novels from the 19th to mid-20th centuries; second term: texts from the 20th century. Texts by African-American, Native American, Hispanic, Asian-American, Jewish-American, and other "minority" or immigrant writers; emphasis on social, historical, and political contexts, and social construction of "race" and ethnicity. |
21&62:352:350The Vietnam War and American Literature (3) Interdisciplinary course exploring the interrelations between the U.S. war in Vietnam and American culture-before, during, and after. Students study fiction, poetry, autobiography, documentary films, and primary documents, including treaties, previously classified reports, and internal analyses written by the decision makers. |
21&62:352:351Crime and Punishment in American Literature (3) Crime and punishment in representative and influential works of American literature from the mid-19th century to the present. |
21&62:352:361Studies in American Authors I (3) Selections from the colonial period to the Civil War. |
21&62:352:362Studies in American Authors II (3) Selections from the post-Civil War period to the 20th century. May be taken independent of 21&62:352:361. |
21&62:352:363,364The Novel in America (3,3) First term: novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries; second term: novels of the 20th century. A diverse range of American novels by both canonical and noncanonical writers; emphasis on the social and historical contexts of fictional conventions. |
21&62:352:368,369Special Topics in American Literature (3,3) Topics change from year to year; specific topic noted in the Schedule of Classes. |
21&62:352:376Modern American Poetry (3) Poetry from the imagist revolt of the 1920s to the present: Frost, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Roethke, Lowell, Plath, Cummings, Sexton, and others. |
21&62:352:377,378Contemporary American Literature (3,3) Survey of American fiction, poetry, drama, and other forms from World War II to the present. |
21&62:352:395,396Afro-American Literature (3,3) Survey of the significant poetry and prose of black writers in Africa and the United States. |
21&62:352:420Recent Trends in American Fiction (3) American fiction from 1930 to the present. |
21&62:352:468Recent Trends in American Drama (3) Post-World War II American plays and playwrights and the major influences that determined the direction of American drama; recent developments in American theater, the influence of the avant-garde, the changing character of the American scene, the growth of black theater, and the "new realism"; readings from Albee, Bullins, Guare, Pinero, Rabe, Shepard, Ward, and others. |
