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2014-2015 University Catalog 
    
2014-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


The University Catalog lists all courses that pertain to the West Lafayette campus. In order to view courses that are available at a given time, and the details of such courses, please visit the myPurdue Schedule of Classes.

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English

  
  • ENGL 27600 - Shakespeare On Film


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Considers the relation of the written text of five or six Shakespeare plays to multiple film versions from a wide variety of times and cultures, e.g., the United States, England, France, Italy, Japan, Denmark, India, and Russia. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 27900 - The American Short Story In Print And Film


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of American short stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their filmed versions, their printed scenarios, and critical writings about the tales and their adaptations. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 28600 - The Movies


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (Lec/Lab offering at PWL.) The history and aesthetics of the movies from The Great Train Robbery and The Birth of a Nation or Intolerance to contemporary films. Comparison of the cinematic method with the methods of the drama and the novel. One afternoon or evening a week for the screening of films; two periods a week for discussion. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 30100 - Ways Of Reading


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Close reading of and significant writing about selected literary texts informed by a variety of critical and/or theoretical perspectives. For English majors and minors only. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 30400 - Advanced Composition


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Designed for students who wish additional training in composition beyond the basic requirements. Extensive practice in the writing of mature expository, critical, and argumentative prose. (The course satisfies the Indiana certification requirement of three hours of advanced composition.). Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 30600 - Introduction To Professional Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Development of skill in analyzing rhetorical situations in the workplace. Practice in planning, writing, evaluating, and revising a variety of documents typical of those used in the arts and industry. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 30900 - Computer-Aided Publishing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The development of the ability to write and design documents using electronic publishing technologies. Students will receive instruction in writing, graphics, and publishing software and will write, design, produce, and critique a number of publications. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 31600 - Craft Of Fiction From A Writer’s Perspective


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the craft of fiction with some consideration of its underlying principles from a writer’s perspective. Topics of study may include works of fiction, statements of aesthetics and craft, and various fictional forms. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 31700 - Craft Of Poetry From a Writer’s Perspective


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the craft of poetry with some consideration of its underlying principles from a writer’s perspective. Topics of study may include works of poetry, statements of aesthetics and craft, and various poetic forms. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 32700 - English Language I: History And Development


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the history of the English language, its sounds, inflections, words, and sentence structures. Cultural and historical events affecting this history, and the interplay between language and literature. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 32800 - English Language II: Structure And Meaning


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The structure of American English and its dialects, with emphasis on syntax and semantics, including parts of speech, sentence structure, and meaning. Implications of recent theory for the teaching of English. Credit will not be given for both ENGL 32800 and LING 32100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 32900 - English Language III: Sound And Form


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The structure of American English and its dialects, with emphasis on phonology and morphology. Implications of recent theory to the teaching of English. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 33100 - Medieval English Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of Saxon and Medieval English literature (700-1500 A.D.) through intensive reading of Old English heroic, elegiac, and religious poetry and Middle English romance, allegory, lyric, and drama, exclusive of Chaucer. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 33300 - Renaissance English Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of Renaissance literature in England through an intensive reading of representative works by such authors as Spenser, Jonson, and Donne (Shakespeare’s plays not included.). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 33500 - Restoration And Eighteenth-Century English Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature through an intensive reading of representative works by such authors as Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson (the novel and the drama excluded for the most part). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 33700 - Nineteenth-Century English Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of Romantic and Victorian literature through an intensive reading of representative works by such authors as Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (the novel excluded). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 33900 - Twentieth-Century British Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Focuses on twentieth-century British literature, with attention given to major cultural and historical movements, canonical and emerging authors, various genres. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 34100 - Topics In Science, Literature, And Culture


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on issues in and representation of science and technology in various texts, including literature, film, science, and theory. May be repeated for credit only under a different topic. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 35000 - Survey Of American Literature From Its Beginnings To 1865


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Emphasizes such major literary figures as Edward Taylor, Franklin, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. The course also treats significant minor writers in relation to literary movements and ideas and includes the works of minority writers. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. CTL:IEL 1210 American Literature I
  
  • ENGL 35100 - Survey Of American Literature From 1865 To The Post-World War II Period


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Emphasizes such major literary figures as Dickinson, Twain, James, Crane, Frost, T. S. Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. The course also treats significant minor writers in relation to literary movements and ideas and includes the works of minority writers. Typically offered Spring Summer Fall. CTL:IEL 1211 American Literature II
  
  • ENGL 35200 - Native American Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of literature by Native American authors in a variety of genres-novels, short stories, poetry, autobiography–using literary analysis, as well as historical, legal, and ethnographic materials. Typically offered Spring Fall.
  
  • ENGL 35400 - Asian American Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of Asian American Literature covering issues such as immigration, identity, class, and gender. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ENGL 35800 - Black Drama


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A critical analysis and discussion of selected representative works by African American dramatists - from William Wells Brown to the moderns. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 35900 - Black Women Writers


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (AAS 35900 ) This course introduces students to the rich and varied literary texts produced by black women writers. Literary analysis, along with a consideration of historical, cultural, gender, and racial contexts will be emphasized. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 36000 - Gender And Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to feminist approaches to the study of literature, including poetry, drama, fiction, and/or autobiography. Examines how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and class in shaping authorship, reading, and representation. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 36500 - Literature And Imperialism


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study through cultural and theoretical works of the impact of imperialism on the ruling nations. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 36600 - Postcolonial Literatures


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of Third World Literature, film, and theory that emerged during and after Western rule. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 36800 - Sociolinguistic Study Of African American English


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ANTH 36800 , AUSL 36800, COM 36800 , LC 36800 , IDIS 37800, LING 36800 ) A study of the history, structure, uses, and educational concerns of African American English in African American speech communities and the United States culture at large. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 37000 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, with attention given to major cultural and historical movements, canonical and emerging authors, various genres. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 37100 - Twentieth-Century American Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Focuses on twentieth-century American literature, with attention given to major cultural and historical movements, canonical and emerging authors, various genres. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 37300 - Science Fiction And Fantasy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Representative works of science fiction and fantasy examined in relation to both mainstream and popular literature. Emphasis is on technique, theme, and form. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 37700 - Major Modern Poetry


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The development of new trends in, and the interrelationships among, the poetry of Ireland, Britain, and the United States. Poets central to modernism, such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Williams, and Stevens, will be emphasized, and students also will read more recent poets. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 37900 - The Short Story


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A historical and critical study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century short stories - Irish, British, American, and Continental. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 38100 - The British Novel


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of representative British novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by such authors as Defoe, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 38200 - The American Novel


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of representative American novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by such authors as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, and Faulkner. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 38300 - Modern Drama: Ibsen To The Absurdists


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of major works of Continental, English, and American drama, including such authors as Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, O’Neill, and Beckett. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 38600 - History Of Film To 1938


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the American and European cinema from its origins in technology and realism to the aesthetic implications presented by the coming of sound. Emphasis on the feature film and on the prevalent aesthetic attitudes in the first decades of the motion picture. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 38700 - History Of The Film From 1938 To The Present


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of international cinema for the period indicated. Emphasis on the feature film and its development as a communication tool, popular art form, medium of personal expression, and self-exploring linguistic system. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 39000 - Practicum In Tutoring Writing


    Credit Hours: 2.00. A practicum to teach undergraduates to teach writing in the one-to-one setting of a writing lab. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 39100 - Composition For English Teachers


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Exploration of the theory, research, and pedagogy of teaching writing at the secondary level. Topics include the development of writing assignments and related activities, the study of writing process models, and the evaluation of student work in a variety of genres. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 39600 - Studies In Literature And Language


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A course in the study of a special topic directed by an instructor in whose particular field of specialization the content of the course falls. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 40100 - English Experience


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Led by a faculty member, students will attend and prepare public events such as talks, performances, workshops, exhibits, colloquia, etc. that represent the scope of English studies. Required of all students enrolled in the honors program in English. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 40200 - English Honors Capstone


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will focus on the significant revision and completion of a research paper or substantial portfolio. Workshop, individual conferences, readings, lectures, short writing assignments, and discussion of various topics in English scholarship will form the center of the course. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENGL 40600 - Review Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Intensive practice in the writing of book, film, and theatre criticism, as well as reviews of musical programs and art exhibits. Readings in critics to serve as possible models. Audience analysis of newspapers and periodicals that would be potential markets. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 40700 - Introduction To Poetry Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of basic methods of composing poetry, with primary emphasis on the student’s own work, submitted frequently during the semesters. Workshop criticism. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 40800 - Creative Writing Capstone


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will focus on the writing and revision of the capstone thesis in Creative Writing, consisting of a substantial portfolio of either fiction or poetry with an introductory essay. Workshop and individual conferences will form the center of the course with readings, lecture, and discussion of various literary topics to be determined by the instructors. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 40900 - Introduction To Fiction Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Writing of several short fictional narratives. Study of short story techniques in published stories and student manuscripts. Workshop criticism. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 41100 - Studies In Major Authors


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the literary, critical, or cinematic works of one or two influential authors or directors. May be repeated for credit only with a different topic. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 41200 - Studies In Genre


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of literary or cinematic works that share distinctive formal features. May be repeated for credit only with a different topic. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 41300 - Studies In Literature And History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of literature or film produced during a particular well-defined historical period from the point of view of its social, political, religious, and economic contexts. May be repeated for credit only with a different topic. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 41400 - Studies In Literature And Culture


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of literature or film from the perspective of the cultural norms and values it expresses, celebrates, challenges, and imaginatively opposes. May be repeated for credit only with a different topic. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 41900 - Multimedia Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Multimedia writing for networked contexts. Emphasizes principles, and practices of multimedia design, implementation, and publishing. Typical genres include Web sites, interactive media, digital video, visual presentations, visual argument, and user documentation. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 42000 - Business Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Workplace writing in networked environments for management contexts. Emphasizes organizational context, project planning, document management, ethics, research, team writing. Typical genres include management memos, reports, letters, e-mail, resumes (print and online), oral presentations. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 42100 - Technical Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Workplace writing in networked environments for technical contexts. Emphasizes context and user analysis, data analysis/display, project planning, document management, usability, ethics, research, team writing. Typical genres include technical reports, memos, documentation, Web sites. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 42201 - Writing For The Health And Human Sciences


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course applies rhetorical principles to writing in health, hospitality, nutrition, nursing and related fields in the Health and Human Sciences. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 42400 - Writing For High Technology Industries


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Applies principles of effective professional writing to the planning, production, and evaluation of computer user manuals and other writing tasks. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 44000 - Chaucer’s Troilus And Criseyde


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical readings of Troilus and Criseyde and related works in Middle English, with attention to the literary and cultural background. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 44100 - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical reading of The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, with attention to the literary and cultural background. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 44200 - Shakespeare


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Shakespeare’s dramatic craftsmanship, poetry, humor, characterization, psychology, and modern pertinence illustrated in representative tragedies, comedies, and history plays. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 44400 - Milton


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An in-depth study of Milton’s work, including some of his early lyric poems, prose, and major works-Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 46000 - Studies In Women’s Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of literary works by women according to a specific theme, historical period, genre, or culture, e.g., Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists, Madness in Women’s Writing, Caribbean Women Writers. May be repeated only with different topic. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 46200 - The Bible As Literature: The Old Testament


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the Old Testament - Pentateuch, Prophets, and other books such as Psalms, Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes - with emphasis on its unique literary characteristics. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 46300 - The Bible As Literature: The New Testament


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the New Testament, with emphasis on its unique literary characteristics. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 46600 - Cultural Encounters


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of cross-cultural works that address the encounters of the First and the Third worlds and the subsequent reshaping of history and culture in both contexts. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 46800 - Problems In The History Of Criticism


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory through study of selected key terms, debates, figures, and texts. Concentration on such topics as representation, authorship, literary form, and interpretation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 46900 - Issues In Contemporary Criticism And Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of recent critical movements and texts. Emphasis on methods of literary analysis, including philosophical, cultural, and formalist approaches. Discussion of, for example, structuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxist, poststructuralist, and emerging non-Western critical schools. The teaching schedule may incorporate screening time. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 47000 - Theories Of Rhetoric And Composition


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A general introduction to the field of rhetoric and composition. Overview of studies in written discourse, including studies of the processes and contexts of written discourse as well as methods of research in the field. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 48800 - Internship In Professional Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. This course provides on-the-job experience in various kinds of professional writing, combined with a seminar in applied rhetoric. Students work in selected internship settings, participate in seminar discussions of their work, and read selections appropriate to their internship. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 49000 - Worksite Internship Practicum


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Course facilitates the transition between an English undergraduate degree and the workplace or professional life. The course has two components: a professor-guided component and a practicum component in a chosen area. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 49200 - Literature In The Secondary Schools


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Exploration of the theory, research and pedagogy supporting the teaching of literature at the secondary level. Topics include text selection, instructional strategies, adolescent literacy, student engagement and the use of alternative texts. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 49400 - Research Practicum For Undergraduates


    Credit Hours: 2.00 or 3.00. This course introduces students to research techniques and trains them to participate in a research laboratory or a professor-sponsored research project. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 50100 - Introduction To English Studies


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to graduate studies in English with special emphasis on research and reference tools, methods of bibliography, and the writing of scholarly papers. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of the basic composition requirement and 6 credit hours in English. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 50200 - Practicum In Teaching College Composition


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Reading professional literature, preparing syllabi; evaluating student papers, leading discussions. Required of all teaching assistants in their initial semesters. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 50500 - Approaches To Teaching College English


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Reading professional literature on the teaching of writing, linguistics, and ESL. Studies of methodologies, issues of assessment, and the relationship between theory and pedagogy. This course is not part of the degree requirement. Open only to teaching assistants in the Department of English. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 50600 - Introduction To English And General Linguistics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. General study of language and linguistic theory with emphasis on English. Problems and methods in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Current techniques of linguistics analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 50700 - Poetry Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A workshop for those experienced in the writing of poetry. Criticism by class and instructor. Study of the work of established writers. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 50900 - Fiction Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the techniques of writing short stories. Workshop. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 51000 - History Of The English Language


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to theories of linguistic change and their application to the historical development of English from its beginnings. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 51100 - Semantics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (AUSL 58800) An introduction to and survey of current semantic theories and methods with an emphasis on English. Basic concepts of linguistic semantics and its relation to the other semantics. Compositional (transformational), model-theoretical (truth-conditional), pragmatic, and contextual semantics. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 51200 - English Syntax And Syntactic Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to English syntactic structure, syntactic argumentation, and syntactic theory. Emphasis on one current theory as the primary theoretical framework, with other theories considered. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 51300 - English Phonology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to current phonological theory, with applications to descriptions of American and British English. Articulatory description of English phonological structure and contrastive analysis of phonetic variation across dialects. Evolution of the stress system of English and its utilization by poets writing metrical verse. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 51500 - Advanced Professional Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Production of documents and coordination of publishing projects for clients and users; application of advanced principles of document design, rhetoric, collaboration, and project management; and team writing in a computer-networked environment. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ENGL 51600 - Teaching English As A Second Language: Theoretical Foundations


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of theories of learning and teaching English as a second/foreign/international language. Focus is on current theories and their implications for practice. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 51800 - Teaching English As A Second Language: Principles And Practices


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Studies of issues and principles in ESL/EFL program development. Emphasis is on practical application of theory in a variety of English learning and teaching contexts in the U.S. and abroad. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 52700 - Medieval Drama In English Society


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of representative mysteries, moralities, and folk plays in their social, political, and religious contexts. Consideration of critical issues including patronage, carnival, subjectivity, and audience reception. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENGL 52800 - Medieval English Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of selected works of Medieval English literature (700-1500 C.E.), exclusive of Chaucer’s writings. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 52900 - Language Study For Educators


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EDCI 52600 ). Covers foundational knowledge in language and linguistics for teachers and educational researchers. Topics include structure and functions of language, language acquisition and development, language diversity, classroom discourse, language and media, and literacy-language arts curriculum. A foundation for work in Literacy and Language Education. Typically offered Summer Spring.
  
  • ENGL 53000 - English Language Development


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EDCI 53000 ). Focuses on theoretical and practical knowledge for teachers about how second languages are learned, and on the educational and philosophical basis for second language teaching and learning. Links English language development to teaching and learning strategies and is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in education and practicing teachers. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • ENGL 53100 - The Rise Of The Novel


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the history and theory of the emergent novel genre as it developed in 18th-century Britain and/or America. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • ENGL 53200 - The English Novel In The Nineteenth Century


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of fiction up to about 1880, including such novelists as Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot, and Meredith. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ENGL 53400 - Seventeenth-Century Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Nondramatic literature from 1603 to 1660. Particular emphasis upon such figures as Jonson, Donne, Marvell, and Herbert, with representative prose from Bacon, Browne, Burton, and others. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ENGL 53500 - Restoration And Early Eighteenth-Century Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of nondramatic literature from 1660 to 1744, from Clarendon through Thomson. Emphasizes Bunyan, Dryden, Pope, and Swift. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENGL 53700 - Drama In Early Modern England


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of plays by Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and others with attention to poetics, dramatic structure, and recent critical and cultural theory. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENGL 53800 - English Drama From The Restoration To The Modern Period


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of English drama from Dryden and Wycherley through Robertson and Pinero. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ENGL 54100 - Studies In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical reading of The Canterbury Tales and related works in Middle English, with attention to the literary and cultural background and to secondary studies. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ENGL 54200 - Shakespeare’s Dramatic Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of Shakespeare’s plays within the dramatic tradition of comedy, tragedy, history, and romance. Consideration of matters such as poetics, dramatic structure and conventions, and textual problems. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENGL 54300 - Shakespeare In Critical Perspective


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Shakespeare’s plays read in context of historical and contemporary literary theory and criticism, considering such issues and approaches as structuralism, Marxism, deconstruction, new historicism, colonialism, sexuality, race, and gender. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • ENGL 54400 - Milton


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of Milton’s poetry and prose, with particular emphasis on Paradise Lost, and some attention to the social, political, and literary background. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENGL 54700 - British Romanticism


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Readings from among the works of the High Romantics and other figures; discussion of historical, philosophical, cultural debates of the era, with attention to current critical and theoretical developments in the field. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • ENGL 54800 - Victorian Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of selected English poetry and prose, largely nonfiction, from circa 1830-1900. Includes readings from such figures as Arnold, Barrett, Bronte, Browning, Carlyle, Mill, Rosetti, Ruskin, and Tennyson. Typically offered Spring.
 

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