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the ways readers can interpret and respond to texts, and the role of imaginative literature in shaping culture. (Prerequisites: ENG 101 and 102; Concurrent enrollment in ENG 102 is acceptable). (3 credits)
211 American Literature to 1865
This course provides a survey of significant works in American literature from Native American writing, colonial writing and pamphleteering, as well as works by Brown, Irving, Cooper, Emerson, Fuller, Poe, Hawthorne and Melville. Attention is paid to defining Enlightenment and Romantic writing in American literature. Prerequisites: ENG 101, ENG 102, and ENG 201. Concurrent enrollment in ENG 201 is acceptable. (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 101, ENG 102, and ENG 201. Concurrent enrollment in ENG 201 is acceptable. (3 credits)
221 British Literature I
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, ENG 102, and ENG 201. Concurrent enrollment in ENG 201 is acceptable. (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 101, ENG 102, and ENG 201. Concurrent enrollment in ENG 201 is acceptable. (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. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and ENG 102. (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, ENG 102, and ENG 201. (3 credits) (Cross-listed as HUM 300)
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