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Department of Humanities<br />
climate. Writers studied may include Yeats,<br />
Eliot, Woolf, Stevens, Auden, and Pynchon.<br />
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.<br />
ENG345 The 20th-Century British Novel<br />
[3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course tracks the British novelistic<br />
production throughout the 20th Century.<br />
Issues explored may include the ways in which<br />
these narratives relate to colonialism, and<br />
its legacies, or to social contexts of textual<br />
production. Writers studied may include Woolf,<br />
Forster, Waugh, Ishiguro, Barnes, and Drabble.<br />
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.<br />
ENG346 Contemporary Culture [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course explores the contemporary culture<br />
through literature, film, and other media,<br />
using a British, or <strong>American</strong>, cultural studies<br />
approach. Topics may include the ways in<br />
which culture intersects with politics, race,<br />
class, religion, gender, or globalization.<br />
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.<br />
ENG348 Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures<br />
[3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course explores the English language<br />
literary production from areas outside of Europe<br />
and North America. Intercultural encounter,<br />
Diaspora, and indigeneity, may be among the<br />
objects of study. Writers may include Achebe,<br />
Soyinka, Naipaul, Rushdie, and Lessing, in<br />
addition to postcolonial theorists.<br />
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.<br />
ENG351 Early <strong>American</strong> Literature [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course chronicles the formation of a<br />
national literature from its Puritan beginnings<br />
to the late 19th Century. In tracing the<br />
emergence of an <strong>American</strong> “voice,”<br />
coursework may span a variety of genres such<br />
as autobiography, poetry, the novel, essays,<br />
and speeches.<br />
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.<br />
ENG352 20th-Century <strong>American</strong> Novel [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course tracks the <strong>American</strong> novelistic<br />
production throughout the 20th Century.<br />
Issues explored may include war, race, the<br />
Great Depression, the Cold War, and neoimperialism.<br />
Writers studied may include<br />
James, Dos Passos, Faulkner, Barthes,<br />
Morrison, and Franzen.<br />
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.<br />
ENG354 Theories of Literature and Culture<br />
[3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course examines the theories of literary,<br />
and cultural, production and reception. The<br />
course may be arranged chronologically, or<br />
according to schools and approaches.<br />
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.<br />
ENG366 Creative Writing [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course examines the techniques of fiction,<br />
poetry writing, and creative non-fiction writing,<br />
based on the study of selected models. Freewriting<br />
exercises, and discussion of writing<br />
assignments, will be emphasized.<br />
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.<br />
ENG372 Comparative and World Literatures<br />
[3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course concentrates on the particular<br />
insights and problems of literature from<br />
a cross-cultural perspective. Questions of<br />
genre, period, and cultural relativism may be<br />
examined through primary texts drawn from<br />
two or more language traditions.<br />
Prerequisite: ENG102 English II.<br />
ENG473 Topics in English Language [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course deals with an area of language<br />
study, or a topic that is not usually dealt within<br />
the other language offerings. It aims at helping<br />
students understand and analyze concepts<br />
associated with language. It may be repeated<br />
once for credit by English Majors, if the course<br />
content is different.<br />
Prerequisites: ENG102 English II, Senior<br />
standing, or the consent of the Instructor.<br />
ENG479 Topics in Literature and Culture<br />
[3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course explores a literary-theoretical<br />
topic in some depth. Topics might include<br />
philosophy and literature, psychological and<br />
Marxist approaches to literature, narrative<br />
theory or postmodernism.<br />
Prerequisites: ENG102 English II, Senior<br />
Standing, and the consent of the Instructor.<br />
ACADEMIC CATALOG [ 2011-2012 ] SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES<br />
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