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Enlightenment and Romantic writing in American literature. Prerequisites: ENG 101. (3 credits)
212 American Literature from 1865
This course surveys American literature since the Civil War—from naturalist authors Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and others, to modernists such as Gertrude Stein and T. S. Eliot, to the Beats and the rise of Pop, to the many styles of postmodern theater, short story, poem, television, film and net-based writing, including David Mamet, John Ashbery, and Richard Ford. Prerequisites: ENG 211. (3 credits)
221 British Literature 1
This course surveys British literature from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Prominent works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Locke, and Boswell will be discussed as well as these works’ historical context. Prerequisites: ENG 101. (3 credits)
222 British Literature II
This course surveys major works of British literature from the late-eighteenth century to the present. Attention is paid to identifying elements of the literary periods of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism. Prerequisite: ENG 221. (3 credits)
231 Linguistics
This course is an introduction to modern linguistics, particularly generative-transformational grammar. It focuses on the nature of language and the major components of grammar: phonology, morphology, and syntax. Much time is devoted to analysis of languages. (3 credits)
300 Critical Theory
This course helps students refine a range of literary-critical skills including close-reading, and contextual analysis, as well as familiarizes them with historic schools of literary theory such as structuralism, deconstruction, reader-response, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. The student will gain skills in evaluating, reflecting on and writing about both primary literary texts and secondary criticism. A few novels of the instructor’s choosing will help to orient the course around pertinent themes and subject matter. Prerequisites: ENG 101. (3 credits) (Cross-listed as HUM 300)
302 Contemporary Poetics
This course exposes students to the world of contemporary American and British poetry (circa 1960-present). In addition to reading poetic works by individual authors, students will explore schools and movements, journals, and cultural institutions connected with contemporary poetry. Students will be asked to try their hand at poetry as well as to keep a portfolio of writing and attend three-four live readings. (3 credits)
310 Teaching of Reading
This course is designed to provide a foundation to the teaching of reading in the elementary school. It includes a general survey of approaches to reading instruction along with a critical analysis of those approaches. The skills taught focus on those competencies that are essential regardless of the grade level taught. (2 credits) (Cross-listed as EDU 310)
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