ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION
Go to class! As a discipline, English is defined by both materials and methods. While students can certainly access the materials—texts of many kinds, defined in many ways—on their own, the methods require participation in a community of scholars, which is the role of the classroom lecture and discussion. Students learn from each other as well as from faculty, and miss a significant portion of the educational experience when they miss class meetings or fail to participate in discussions. The English Department therefore affirms the importance of regular class attendance and supports penalties for non-attendance as indicated on the syllabi of individual faculty members.
Courses at the 300-level
The poetry, nonfiction prose, and short fiction of American literature to 1860 are studied.
4 credit hours
The poetry, nonfiction prose, and short fiction of American literature from 1860 to 1914 are studied.
4 credit hours
Students study the beginnings and the development of the American novel up to World War I.
4 credit hours
Emphasis is on major contributions in British and American poetry from 1900 to midcentury.
4 credit hours
Focus is on the innovators of modern drama and the American, British, and European playwrights they influenced until midcentury.
4 credit hours
Focus is on the twentieth-century British novel, with emphasis on its development to midcentury.
4 credit hours
Works by British and American women writers are studied. Included are issues of gender, tradition, and canon.
4 credit hours
The role of the motion picture as a major literary and social force of the twentieth century is examined. Topics include the major genres of the feature film and their relationships to other literary and visual forms.
4 credit hours
African American literature in English is studied. This course may be repeated for credit with a change in content.
4 credit hours
Issues of race, ethnicity, and canon are explored through the study of several American literatures, such as African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American.
4 credit hours
Significant fiction from World War I to midcentury is studied.
4 credit hours
Significant American fiction from midcentury to the present is studied.
4 credit hours
Subjects are drawn from various historical periods, such as classical Greek, modern European, or contemporary African. This course may be repeated for credit with a change in content.
4 credit hours
Students examine literatures in a variety of genres from Asia, Africa, and any other regions that might be defined as non-Western.
4 credit hours
Emphasis is on the nature of film technique, the vision of reality that distinguishes film from other creative forms, and the language of film and film criticism.
4 credit hours
Major trends, movements, and figures from midcentury to the present are studied.
4 credit hours
Landmarks in dramatic literature from midcentury to the present are analyzed. Emphasis is on American, British, and European playwrights who experiment with language and technique.
4 credit hours
Significant fiction of the last twenty years, without national restriction, is studied.
4 credit hours
The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and a number of Chaucer’s short poems are studied. All are read in the late Middle English of the originals.
4 credit hours
The major Shakespearean histories and comedies are examined, with attention given to the theatrical, literary, and social background of Shakespeare's age.
4 credit hours
This is a critical analysis of Shakespeare's major tragedies and the theatrical tradition to which they belong. Considerable attention is given to the nature of tragedy as a literary genre and to the role it plays in the Shakespearean canon.
4 credit hours
Works such as Beowulf, Anglo-Saxon lyrics, the works of the Pearl Poet, Piers Plowman, and Malory’s Morte D’Arthur are studied.
4 credit hours
Readings from the English Renaissance are studied, including Spenser, Sidney, the sonneteers, the nondramatic poetry of Shakespeare, and Marlowe.
4 credit hours
Readings include the works of Donne, the metaphysical poets, Jonson, and Milton, among others.
4 credit hours
Readings include the works of Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson, among others.
4 credit hours
The English romantic movement is examined chiefly through the works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
4 credit hours
The Victorian period is studied, including Hopkins, Tennyson, Browning, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Arnold.
4 credit hours
The development of British drama is traced from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the closing of the theatres in 1642. Emphasis is on major Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare.
4 credit hours
This is a historical and critical analysis of the major dramatists in England from 1660 to 1784, including Etherege, Congreve, Gay, and Sheridan.
4 credit hours
The novels of such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Austen are studied.
4 credit hours
The novels of such writers as Thackeray, C. Bronte, E. Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy are studied.
4 credit hours
Students write, discuss, and revise a number of original works and also study the work of established writers. This course may be repeated for credit.
4 credit hours
- ENGL 220
Students write, discuss, and revise a number of poems and also analyze the works of established poets. This course may be repeated for credit.
4 credit hours
- ENGL 220
Focus is on the production and revision of literary prose, which may include the nonfiction narrative, the personal essay, the prose meditation, or the autobiography. This course may be repeated for credit.
4 credit hours
- ENGL 220
Students learn the basic principles of producing a literary magazine, Shoreline, including manuscript solicitation, selection, and editing.
2 credit hours
- ENGL 220
Students learn the basic principles of producing a literary magazine, Shoreline, including copy editing, design, and distribution.
2 credit hours
- ENGL 220 and 375 (or consent of department chair)