ENGL 349 – Literature of the South
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Studies the literature and culture of the U.S. South. Emphasizes writers and works from the 20th century Southern Literary Renascence (e.g., Faulkner, Williams, Tate, Warren) to contemporary times, with attention to how these writers engage questions of region.
ENGL 343 – American Romanticism
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Covers philosophical and literary changes associated with a turn toward the imagination and the intuitive. Includes texts by writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Douglass, Emerson, Dickinson, and Whitman, and others, notably women, who were also writing popular texts of […]
ENGL 344 – American Realism and Naturalism
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Examines the philosophic and literary turning away from Romanticism in the aftermath of the Civil War and the style and subject matter of American realists, including representations of middle-class and lower-class life. Also explores the emergence of Naturalism and the development […]
ENGL 334 – Modernism
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses primarily on the literature of British authors from 1890 to 1950. Takes an interdisciplinary approach, situating literature within larger social, cultural, and artistic movements, exploring the decline of the British Empire, the persistence of the social class system, the disillusionment […]
ENGL 335 – Contemporary British Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Covers a wide range of recent British literature, including authors who have been recognized with prestigious literary prizes. Material may include multiple genres (fiction, poetry, drama, and film). Course will give insight into the cultural, political, and personal complexities that characterize […]
ENGL 327 – Renaissance British Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on the concept of “renaissance” and its development throughout the literature of early modern Britain. Through reading a representative sample of prose, poetry, and drama (non-Shakespearean), students will examine generic structures and explore the dynamic relationships between the literature and […]
ENGL 328 – Neoclassical British Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses primarily on the works of Dryden, Swift, Pope and Johnson. Through a wide range of reading, including texts by a number of minor authors, students will investigate the major themes of Restoration and 18th century literature. Particular attention will be […]
ENGL 310 – Modern English Grammar
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Reviews traditional grammar, requiring students to demonstrate mastery of traditional grammar and grammatical terminology. Introduces analysis of style and modern grammatical theory including structural linguistics and transformational-generative linguistics. Gives attention to language acquisition by children and to regional and social variations […]
ENGL 433 – The Nineteenth Century Novel
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on the development of the novel as an art form in 19th-century Britain, examining the history of the book, readership, serialization, publishing practices, and lending libraries. Also explores the manner in which novels represent several historical and cultural themes, such as class boundaries […]
ENGL 467 – Adv Study/Lang, Rhetoric Or Theory
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on an area of contemporary rhetorical theory (e.g. Serial Narratology). May be taken twice for academic credit with departmental approval.
ENGL 496 – English Capstone Experience
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max: Description: Includes assessment of English majors’ knowledge of the discipline and instruction in career search skills. Satisfactory performance required of all students in the semester they complete the major.
ENGL 372 – Creative Writing: Playwriting
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduces students to writing for the stage. Class discussion emphasizes stagecraft, character development, and dramatic conflict. Students will be expected to write their own plays for in-class critique and possible submission for production/publication.