ENGLISH 329      Film As Art
An application and formulation of critical approaches to the major artistic achievements of the important creators of this modern aesthetic form -- D.W. Griffith, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Bergman, Einstein, Kubrick.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 330      History Of The English Language
The study of English beginning with the Indo-European language family up to and including varieties of English spoken around the world today. Both outer history and the inner history of phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon will be addressed.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 331      African American Literature I
This course provides a survey of African American literature from its beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. Areas of interest will include abolitionist literature (especially Slave Narratives), turn-of-the-century literature and the Harlem Renaissance. This course will examine any or all of the following literary forms: fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography and essay. It will view African American literature in its historical and cultural contexts. Cross-listed with Black Studies 331.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 332WI      African American Novel
This course will examine the Africian American Novel in the 19th and 20th centuries; the emphasis will be on the period from the 1920s to the present. The novels will be examined in their historical and cultural contexts.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 333      African American Literature II
A survey of African American literature from the end of the Harlem Renaissance to the present, covering a range of authors, texts, and contexts. Cross-listed with Black Studies 333.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 336      Contemporary American Literature
An intensive study of American literature since World War II, concentrating on the profound literary changes following that war, as a new kind of poetry, fiction and drama emerges which chronicles the simultaneous dissolution of old values and the efforts to establish new ones. Writers such as Lowell, Roethke, Ginsberg, Ellison, Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Pynchon, Katherine Anne Porter, Heller, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee will be considered along with others, as American writing develops in our time.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 339      Introduction to Screenwriting
An introduction to the form and language of the motion picture screenplays. Students create a blueprint for a movie and examine visual storytelling in-depth, including basic dramatic structure, scene and sequence construction and dialogue. Students will master the industry screenplay format, adapt a short story for the screen, and learn to receive feedback in small groups. Prerequisites: Comm Studies 230 or 250, or permission of instructor. Crosslisted with COMM-ST 354: Intro to Screenwriting.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 340A      Classical Literature In Translation
This course will focus on representative authors and works from the Greek and Roman Classical periods, such as Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Plato, the Greek Lyrics, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal, Ovid and Plautus.
Credits: 3-4 hours
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ENGLISH 342WI      Women And Rhetoric
A study of the position of women within the traditions of western rhetoric. Students will examine the rhetorical practices of women as they pursue both public and private goals. Christine de Pizan, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Hannah More, Maria Stewart, Frances Willard, Ida Wells-Barnett, Meridel Le Sueur, and Gloria Anzaldua are among the female rhetorians who may be studied in this course.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 344WI      Women & Literary Culture: Genre Focus
A study of women writers that focuses on genre, i.e., texts that share a common set of conventions. The course will explore the conventions associated with a particular genre in various historical periods and consider the ways in which gender and genre intersect in shaping texts and their interpretation.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 345WI      Women And Literary Culture: Historical Focus
A study of women's literary culture in a specific historical period either as broadly defined as Medieval or Renaissance or as narrowly defined as a decade or movement (e.g., 1960s, abolitionist movement). This course includes women writers across multiple boundaries (e.g., national, generic, racial, sexual, socio-economic). Content will change depending on the instructor.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 350      The 18th Century Novel
A detailed examination of the development of the novel in the 18th century. The course emphasizes the evolution of the novel from such predecessors as rogue literature, the picaresque story and the romance, due to changing social realities. The novelists studied may include Austen, Behn, Fielding, Godwin, Haywood, Richardson, Smollett, and Sterne. Prerequisite: None Restricitions: None.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 351      Special Readings
Readings in a period, genre or theme to be selected by the instructor with attention to the needs of students who are interested in literary topics not covered in regular offerings. Proposals for a course in such readings require the approval of the department.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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ENGLISH 351A      Special Readings: Detective Fiction
Credits: 1-3 hours
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ENGLISH 352P      Critical Approaches To The Short Story
In this course the student will explore the short story as a literary genre. Stories will range from the early masters such as Chekov, Kafka, and Hawthorne through contemporary offerings from Lessing, Mishima, and Achebe. Several critical approaches will be presented including formalism, New Historicism, and race/class/gender criticism. Students will keep a reading journal covering all material read for the course, and will be assessed on the basis of this journal, a mid-term and a final examination. Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 hours
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ENGLISH 354P      Masterpieces Of Fiction
The goal of this independent study is to provide the student with time and space to read and respond to 7-9 critically acclaimed and classic novels. Students will be allowed to choose the novels they wish to read from a list of 50 that will be provided by the instructors. This course must be taken in conjunction with at least one of the other two courses in this block in order to ensure that the student has exposure to literary theory. Students will be assessed on the basis of their response journal, casual oral examination, and a critical essay. Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 hours
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ENGLISH 355      The Novel Before 1900
Intensive attention to novels in English written before 1900, which may include comparative or analytical studies of genre; critical reception of novels; serialization, gender issues; authors and editors; and valuation. Offered: On demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 356      Studies in Poetry
An intensive study of poetry through the examination of a specific topic or the works of particular poets, for instance: Love, Seduction, and Betrayal; Form and Change; Death, Grief, and Consolation; Whitman, Dickinson, and the Soul; Sacred Poetry; Poetry and Metaphysics; The Long Poem; The Comic Poem; Sonnet, Sonnet Sequence and the Lyric; The Voyage; Nature, Self, and the Romantic Poet.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 360      The Modern Novel
A study of the 20th-century novel, American, British and Continental, with attention to the development of fiction during this century. This course deals with novelists principally active before 1930, such as Conrad, James Joyce, Kafka, Hemingway, Lawrence, Woolf, Mann, Fitzgerald, and others. Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 365      Contemporary Novel
This course focuses on selected novelists since 1945 and is organized around particular literary themes, sub-genres, or contemporary issues.
Credits: 3 hours
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