ENGL 220 – Introduction to Literature
3 credit hours
Primer for upper-level literature courses, covering drama, fiction, poetry, and film. This course introduces the terminology of literature as well as the fundamentals of how to read, discuss, and write about a literary text. Offered every spring.
Prerequisite: LDRS 101
ENGL 231 – Creative Writing
3 credit hours
Dynamics of creative process in fiction, poetry, and drama. Exploration of student writing through interchange of ideas and reactions in weekly seminars. Offered every spring.
Prerequisite: LDRS 102
ENGL 331 Advanced Creative Writing, Poetry & Fiction
3 credit hours
Designed to build on the student’s writing skills and is individually tailored to meet the student’s needs in personal development towards poetry and fiction.
Prerequisite: ENGL 231, Creative Writing
ENGL 216 – Literary Genres
An examination of one of the following genres: poetry, fiction, drama, film, or nonfiction literature. May be repeated as long as topics are not duplicated. Offered every fall.
ENGL 226 – British Literature to 1784
3 credit hours
A survey of British literature from the Middle-Ages to the Eighteenth Century, including Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Organized in historical sequence, attention will be paid to both historical interpretation and to the connection between the writer and contemporary reader. Offered fall of even years.
Prerequisite: ENGL 220 or consent of instructor
ENGL 227 – British Literature Since 1784
3 credit hours
A study of selected writings, beginning with Romantics such as Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats; extending through Victorian poetry and prose; and culminating with twentieth century moderns such as Yeats, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. Offered spring of odd years.
Prerequisite: ENGL 220 or consent of instructor
ENGL 238 – American Literature to 1865
3 credit hours
Survey of early American authors from the Colonial, Enlightenment, and Romantic periods. Examines the emergence of an American literary identity from its Puritan origins to the Civil War. Offered fall of odd years.
Prerequisite: ENGL 220 or consent of instructor
ENGL 239 – American Literature Since 1865
3 credit hours
A survey of American writing from the Civil War to the latter part of the Twentieth Century. Examines trends including Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism; also covers emerging minority writers. Offered spring of even years.
Prerequisite: ENGL 220 or consent of instructor
ENGL 350 – Early World Literature
3 credit hours
English translations of literary masterpieces from ancient times through the early Eighteenth Century. Representative authors include Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Cervantes. Offered fall of even years.
Prerequisite: ENGL 220 or consent of instructor
ENGL 351 – Modern World Literature
3 credit hours
English translations of significant works of late eighteenth through twenty-first century authors such as Goethe, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Borges, and Camus. Offered spring of odd years.
Prerequisite: ENGL 220 or consent of instructor