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Department of Humanities
ENG307 Introduction to Psycholinguistics
[3-0, 3 cr.]
This course examines the influence of
psychological factors on the development,
use, and interpretation of language, and
investigates the relationship between
language and thought. The course also surveys
experimental and empirical studies of linguistic
usage, and the development of language.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG308 Semantics and Pragmatics [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course introduces theoretical and
empirical approaches to linguistic semantics
and pragmatics, in relation to language
encoded meanings, as part of the language
syntactic structures, and language choice in a
social interaction/context.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG310 Sociolinguistics [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course introduces language in its social
context. Special areas of interest would
include interactional, variational, and cultural
linguistics, across speech communities, mainly
in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, and
multilingualism.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG319 History of the English Language
[3-0, 3 cr.]
This course focuses on the history and
development of the English language from its
origins to the present, including the historical
context of the development of the language.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG323 Renaissance Drama [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course examines the plays of Shakespeare,
and his contemporaries, with attention to
their social context and later reception. Close
readings of texts and film versions are directed
toward discerning elements of dramatic
technique, characterization, and theme.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG324 Medieval Literature [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course surveys the medieval origins of the
English literature until the late 15th Century,
across the genres of lyric, epic, romance and
drama. Writers and texts studied may include
Beowulf, La Mort D’Arthur, Chaucer, Langland
and Everyman.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG325 Renaissance Poetry [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course examines the genres of lyric, and
epic, poetry from the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Students study the work of poets such as
Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne,
and Milton.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG326 Restoration and Neoclassical
Literature [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course places the genres of poetry, drama,
and the prose essay, within their historical
contexts. Writers studied may include Dryden,
Bunyan, Pope, Johnson, and Congreve.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG328 Early Novel [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course focuses on the emergence and
early development of the novel in English,
in light of its historical and literary contexts.
Writers studied may include Defoe, Richardson,
Fielding, and Sterne.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG336 Romantic and Victorian Poetry
[3-0, 3cr.]
This course examines lyric and narrative poetry
throughout the 19th Century. Students study
the work of poets such as Blake, Coleridge,
Keats, Tennyson, and Arnold.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG339 19th-Century British Novel [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course explores the novel of the 19th
Century England according to how it addresses
major thematic, and aesthetic, concerns of the
period. Writers studied may include Austen,
Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy.
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.
ENG342 Modernism and Beyond [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course explores the concept of Modernism
and Modernist art forms from the late 19th
Century to the 1960s. Through selected poetry,
prose, film, and plastic arts, the course seeks
to convey an artistic, social, and intellectual
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