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