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ENGL 346
Poetry
Study of poetry and imaginative prose,
including an analysis of the theoretical,
literary, and sociocultural contexts of
these works. The course may include
creative writing by students. Prerequisite:
A 100-level humanities course and
satisfaction of IIT’s Basic Writing
Proficiency Requirement. (3-0-3)
(H) (C)
ENGL 351
Nineteenth-Century
American Literature
Study of representative works of such
writers as Franklin, Poe, Emerson,
Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twain,
Chopin and Dickinson, Prerequisite: A
100-level humanities course and
satisfaction of IIT’s Basic Writing
Proficiency Requirement. (3-0-3)
(H) (C)
ENGL 353
Writing in Black
An examination of works by Toni
Morrison, Paule Marshall, W.E.B.
DuBois, Richard Wright and other
black writers. The course includes
formal and ideological analysis,
emphasizing both nationalism and
transnationalism in black culture.
Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities
course and satisfaction of IIT’s Basic
Writing Proficiency Requirement.
(3-0-3) (H) (C)
ENGL 356
World Literatures
Contemporary networks of global
capital and information technologies
provide the motivation for the reading
strategies of this course. The course will
examine literary texts from a variety of
global contexts from the perspectives of
globalism and nationalism. Prerequisite:
A 100-level humanities course and
satisfaction of IIT’s Basic Writing
Proficiency Requirement. (3-0-3)
(H) (C)
ENGL 360
Chicago in Literature
A survey of great American novelists,
poets and dramatists who have lived
and worked in Chicago from the time
of the Great Fire to the present day,
and who have made Chicago one
of the great world literary centers.
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Writers discussed include such figures
as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg
and Richard Wright. Prerequisite: A
100-level humanities course and
satisfaction of IIT’s Basic Writing
Proficiency Requirement. (3-0-3)
(H) (C)
ENGL 362
Work, Worker and the Workplace:
Changing Images in Literature
and the Arts
An investigation of the changing images
of work, workers, and the workplace
from the 1890s to the 1990s. The course
addresses the representation of both technological
and social change in fiction,
poetry, and art. Prerequisite: A 100-level
humanities course and satisfaction
of IIT’s Basic Writing Proficiency
Requirement. (3-0-3) (H) (C)
ENGL 366
Twentieth-Century
American Literature
Study of such writers as Steinbeck, Frost,
Eliot, Anderson, O’Neill, Hemingway,
Cather, Wolfe, Faulkner and contemporary
writers such as Updike and Toni
Morrison. Prerequisite: A 100-level
humanities course and satisfaction of
IIT’s Basic Writing Proficiency
Requirement. (3-0-3) (H) (C)
ENGL 371
Middle English
and Renaissance Literature
Study of English literature from its
beginnings-both oral and writtenthrough
the early 17th Century,
in times of linguistic change, political
revolutions, nation-building and
burgeoning empire. Reading list varies
but is likely to include Arthurian
romance, the Gawain poet, Chaucer,
Margery Kempe, Medieval Drama,
Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare,
Elizabeth Carey, John Webster (and
other Elizabethan and Jacobean poets
and playwrights), John Donne and
John Milton. Prerequisite: A 100-levelhumanities
course and satisfaction
of IIT’s Basic Writing Proficiency
Requirement. (3-0-3) (H) (C)
ENGL 372
Restoration and
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Study of English Literature in the Age
of Enlightenment, from the late 17th
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to the late 18th century. Reading
list varies but may include Donne,
Milton, Bunyan, Behn, Dryden,
Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Burke,
Reynolds and Sterne. Prerequisite: A
100-level humanities course and
satisfaction of IIT's Basic Writing
Proficiency Requirement. (3-0-3)
(H) (C)
ENGL 373
The Romantic Rebellion
and Its Aftermath
The foundations of modernism growing
out of the upheaval that brought
forth the poetry of Wordsworth, Keats
and Shelley, and a new vision of
an industrialized world in the works
of Dickens, Carlyle, Ruskin, and
Tennyson. Prerequisite: A 100-level
humanities course and satisfaction
of IIT’s Basic Writing Proficiency
Requirement. (3-0-3) (H) (C)
ENGL 374
Twentieth-Century British Literature
Study of such writers as Shaw, Yeats,
Woolf, Joyce, Huxley, Auden, Spender
and Thomas. Prerequisite: A 100-level
humanities course and satisfaction
of IIT’s Basic Writing Proficiency
Requirement. (3-0-3) (H) (C)
ENGL 376
Science Fiction: I
A treatment of select science fiction
texts in terms of how they reflect
shifting forms of work and social life
in the 20th century, The course will
focus on how these texts translate shifts
in social patterns and popular entertainment.
Prerequisite: A 100-level
humanities course and satisfaction
of IIT’s Basic Writing Proficiency
Requirement. (3-0-3) (H) (C)
ENGL 377
Science Fiction: II
An investigation of science fiction
novels and what they tell us about our
conceptions of nature and technology,
and about the possible outcomes
for our cultural and technological
processes. We will ask how these novels
connect environmental or ecological
themes with political and economic
ones. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities
course and satisfaction of IIT's
Basic Writing Proficiency Requirement.
(3-0-3) (H) (C)
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