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ENGL 400 Senior Seminar

In the capstone course, students will reflect back upon their English major, and will polish their skills in critical and close reading, research-based and other forms of writing, as well as oral explorations of literature.

3

Prerequisites

ENGL 324 or ENGL 343 or ENGL 345 or ENGL 346 or ENGL 348 or ENGL 349 or ENGL 380 or ENGL 381 or ENGL 440 or ENGL 446

ENGL 404 Literary London

Variable topics course. Taught in London as a study abroad experience, the course examines its content using interdisciplinary approaches rooted in the resources of the city of London.

3

ENGL 405 Page and Stage

This course will study drama as it is meant to be explored--on the page and on the stage. We begin our analysis of the drama with discussion on campus and then travel to see productions of the plays. In our post-production discussions and writing, we will consider the choices made in production and the impact of that on our reading of the plays. A frequent destination for the course will be New York City, but we may also travel to Stratford, Ontario, or other sites, for productions as well.

1.5-6

ENGL 407 Tragedy

An examination of representative tragedies and selected theories of tragedy from ancient Greece through Renaissance England and Neo-Classical France to the modern era. Primary focus on the plays and fiction with attention to various conceptions of the tragic vision.

3

ENGL 408 Arthurian Literature

Study of the many works about King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, extending from the eighth century to the present.

3

ENGL 410 Chaucer

Study of The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Introduction to Middle English language and period and to significant Chaucerian scholarship.

3

ENGL 412 Shakespeare: Romances and Comedies

Study of Shakespeare's romances and comedies.

3

ENGL 414 Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies

Study of Shakespeare's histories and tragedies.

3

ENGL 416 Elizabethan Drama

The development of the English drama in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The growth of drama from the medieval mystery, miracle, and morality plays through the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The plays in their cultural, historical, and artistic climates.

3

ENGL 418 Restoration/18th Century Drama

Study of the drama and theatre of the period, focusing on a variety of traditional and emergent genres such as comedy, tragedy, heroic drama, and pantomime.

3

ENGL 420 Milton

Milton's thought and art as expressed in "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained", "Samson Agonistes", and selections from the minor poems and the prose.

3

ENGL 422 English Novel I

Study of representative novels of the 18th and early 19th centuries with attention to the development of new readerships and the novel as a genre, emphasizing forms such as the gothic, the epistolary, and the didactic.

3

ENGL 424 English Novel II

Study of such 19th and 20th century novelists as Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Conrad, Lawrence, and Woolf. Special attention to form of the novel used to portray each writer's vision.

3

ENGL 425 Irish Literature

A study of Irish literature, within its cultural and historical context, drawn from both the Irish and English-language traditions. Selections might include medieval poetry and epic, myth and folklore, 18th century bardic poetry, Anglo-Irish literature, and modern and contemporary works.

3

ENGL 427 Major Writers

Study of the works of up to three major writers. A variable content course. May be taken more than once with departmental approval.

3

ENGL 430 Bloomsbury Modernism

An in-depth exploration of the Bloomsbury Group, members of which individually and collectively were responsible for shifting attitudes about the nature and function of art, its relation to philosophy, science, economics, politics and culture in early twentieth-century England and beyond. The course seeks to expand students' understanding of the modernist period, Bloomsbury's place within it, and ongoing legacies for contemporary thinking.

3

ENGL 435 Undergraduate Research in English

Undergraduate Research is an opportunity to conduct research in the fields of English. Students will join a research team with a specific focus and carry out the research tasks that will lead to submission of presentations or publications.

1-3

Prerequisites

ENGL 213

ENGL 446 Contemporary Literary Theory

Advanced study aiming to enhance students’ ability to understand, analyze, contextualize, evaluate, and work with one or more modes of literary theory.

3

Prerequisites

ENGL 213

ENGL 456 ESL Tutoring

Focus on tutoring students whose first language is not English.

1

ENGL 465 English Internships

English internships. Interns work 40 hours for 1 credit hour. Enrollment requires a completed Learning Contract and permission of the department.

1-12

ENGL 490 Independent Study

Study of a particular author, topic, or work. Periodic meetings with instructor and writing a substantial paper. Department approval.

1-6

ENGL 499 Special Topics

A variable-content course. Topics announced in online Course Offerings.

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