ENGL 120 Introduction to Literature 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 112 coreq & English Major only
Provides background to student's later encounters with literary genres, terminologies, and texts of the following critical approaches: Reader based Author based Text based.
ENGL 121 Words and Structures 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 112
Enhances vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills necessary for language educators. Allows students to develop practical skills in English word formation (morphology) and sentence structure (syntax) analysis. Gives an opportunity to apply vocabulary and grammar skills to text analysis and text composition.
ENGL 222 American Literature I 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 120
Examines selections from American authors from the middle of the Seventeenth century to the middle of the Nineteenth century.
ENGL 223 American Literature II 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 222
Examines representative selections from American authors from the middle of the Seventeenth century to the middle of Nineteenth century.
ENGL 224 English Literature I 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 120
Surveys the development of English literature from the Middle Ages through the Eighteenth century, while reviewing pertinent historical and cultural issues. Students read and analyze representative works of selected major writers.
ENGL 225 English Literature II 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 224
Examines the development of English literature during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Reading and analysis of representative works of selected major writers.
ENGL 271 Short Story Writing 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 112
Focuses on writing exercise in the beginning and then short stories, work-shopping them in class with particular attention to character, point of view, plot, setting, description, tone, narrative orchestration, meaning, style and language.
ENGL 321 Myth 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 222 or 224
Myth
ENGL 371 Adolescent Literature 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 120 & UENG
Explores the common themes in YA literature including multiculturalism, identity, gender, and disability. Surveys excerpts of 'new classics' and examines the literary trends associated with them. Emphasizes critical reading as part of the exploration of YA literature in which we explore the politics at hands in each of these texts. Focuses on how we can as educators use young adult literature to develop and enhance critical reading/ thinking skills.
ENGL 372 Children's Literature 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 120 & UENG
Surveys a broad range of children's literature and its cultural contexts. Aims to teach students to identify literary elements and understand the history and development of children's literature and key issues today. Focuses on the important role children's literature plays in elementary literacy instruction.
ENGL 377 Special Topics in Literature I 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 222 OR ENGL 224
Focuses on genres of literature not addressed in other literature courses. Topics vary at the discretion of the instructor.
ENGL 429 Classical Literature 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 222 or 224
Provides student with a broad overview of classical literature as it bears on English literature. Also aims to acquaint students with the cultural, religious, political background of the Greek and Roman worlds by perusing a broad range of texts. Examines classical texts by different authors, such as Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Virgil and Horace, in order for students to be exposed to a wide selection of perspectives, rationales and contexts.
ENGL 432 Medieval English Literature 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 224
Surveys Old and Middle English literature from Beowulf to Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, exclusive of Chaucer. All works are read in modern English translations.
ENGL 433 Shakespeare: Tragedies & Romances 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 224
Examines the development of Shakespeare’s concept of tragedy and tragicomedy from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest. The plays will be related to the social and literary milieu of the period.
ENGL 434 Shakespeare: Comedies & Histories 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 224
Examines Shakespeare’s early work for the theatre with some attention to the sonnets and longer poems. Provides historical background for a study of all the plays, including discussions of Elizabethan society, the world of the stage and Shakespeare’s biography.
ENGL 436 Drama: The Greatest Hits 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 224
Studies some of history's most famous dramas both as literary forms and as cultural expressions. Students will read and discuss a wide variety of well-known plays from ancient Greece and Rome, the early modern English stage, and explore the global influence of drama.
ENGL 443 The 18th Century English Novel: Gender & Class 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 224
Explores the factors contributing to the rise of the 18-century novel and discusses in-depth the two central issues in 18th-century fiction - class and gender.
ENGL 444 The 19th Century English Novel 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 225
Novels of the Romantic and Victorian periods, from Austen to George Eliot.
ENGL 447 The Gothic 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 224
Explores the factors contributing to the rise of Gothic ism in the 18th century, and discusses Gothic literary aesthetics and cultural politics.
ENGL 448 Literature of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 225
Examines literature of the period between 1870 and the First World War, including works by writers such as Hardy, Conrad, James, Wilde, Stevenson, Shaw, Jefferies, and Wells.
ENGL 449 Modern British Fiction 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 225
Focuses on critical reading and analysis of British fiction of the twentieth century.
ENGL 450 Selected Major American Writers I 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223
Examines American literature of the nineteenth century: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman and others.
ENGL 451 Selected Major American Writers II 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223
Examines American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: James, Twain, Stephen Crane, Dreiser and others.
ENGL 452 American Fiction to World War I 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223
Studies the development of the novel and short story in America.
ENGL 453 Modern American Fiction 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223
Examines the novel and short story in America since World War I.
ENGL 454 World Literature 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 222 or 224
Analyzes representative works of world literature, Western and non-Western, from Antiquity to modern times. Highlights certain periods (e.g. from Antiquity to the Renaissance, the 18th century to the late 19th century, or the modern and post-modern periods) or certain thematic concerns. Analyzes works in their cultural/historical contexts and their enduring human values which unite the different literary traditions. Promotes critical thinking and writing within a framework of cultural diversity as well as comparative and interdisciplinary analysis.
ENGL 455 Modern Poetry 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223 / 225
Examines modern movements and ideas including Symbolism, Imagism, the Harlen Renaissance, the Beat generation, Confessionalism, Formalism, Martian poetry, Postmodernism, Performance and Slam.
ENGL 456 From Text To Film 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 222 or 224
Introduces students to film theory and issues of cinematic adaptation. Highlights text and film as different mediums, and focuses on the creative transformation that takes place in the process of adapting literary texts. Explores and eclectic selection of literary texts and their cinematic counterparts from different traditions and eras.
ENGL 457 Modern Drama 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223 / 225
Focuses on plays and ideas that have influenced or modified the direction of drama in the modern period. Representative plays from the 1880s to the present day are analyzed and reviewed in the class, both critically and in performance.
ENGL 461 Contemporary Critical Theory 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 360
Acquaints students with a range of critical methodologies that have gained the currency since the 1960's. Includes the following critical theories: formalist (New Critical, Russian, and Aristotelian), structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxist, reader response, feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, postmodern, cultural, ecocritical and aesthetic.
ENGL 472 Modern Novel 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223 / 225
Explores the novels of major twentieth-century Anglophone writers and discusses them from a variety of critical perspectives (Marxist, postcolonial, feminist, psychoanalytic). Emphasises the importance of reading the modern novel in the context of its pertinent literary movements (modernism, postmodernism), as well as in the context of its global, transnational reception.
ENGL 473 Narrative and Cultural Studies 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 224
Introduces theories that have defined cultural studies. Focuses on the dynamics of culture regionally and globally, through interdisciplinary cultural critique and analysis, from literature to other media generally.
ENGL 474 Seminar 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223 / 225
Examines topics and texts not covered in other courses at an advanced level. Topics vary per semester and enrollment limited to twelve students.
ENGL 476 Studies in Women & Literature 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223 / 225
Examines the role of gender in literature, including the transformation of literary genres by women writers, writings by women during a particular historical period, and gender relations in literature. Specific topics vary from semester to semester. The course may be repeated for credit with departmental approval.
ENGL 477 Special Topics in Literature 2 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223 / 225
Focuses on topics in literature that are not covered in other 400-level English courses.
ENGL 478 Comparative Literature 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 222 or 224
Explores literature and other forms of cultural expression across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Presents a genrous range of literary works to develop a focused critical understanding of how cultures differ from one another. Focuses on the creative connections between literary texts as intertexts, as well as on the ways of reading and comparing them critically.
ENGL 480 Postcolonial Literature 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 224
Surveys post-colonial literature written primarily in English in the twentieth century by authors from around the world, including Britain, America, Asia and Africa. Examines texts in their historical contexts, with due emphasis upon their interrelation.
ENGL 481 Literature in Translation 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL 223 / 225
Analyzes various world literatures as they are translated into English. Introduces students to serveral major national literatures and their transnational Anglophone reception. Texts can be selected from Arabic, African, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, South American, and other traditions.
