Courses

ENG 228 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT.   3.0 Credit(s)
Addresses modernism as it is shaped and constructed in the classic texts of Conrad, Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, and others. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 229 SPECIAL TOPICS IN BRITISH LIT.   3.0 Credit(s)
Course description varies each time the course is offered. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 230 COLONIAL & FED. AMERICAN LIT.   3.0 Credit(s)
Focuses on Colonial American writing from 1620 to 1800. Bradford, Edwards, Taylor, and Franklin are studied. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 233 AMERICAN RENAISSANCE   3.0 Credit(s)
A study of transcendentalists: Hawthorne, Melville, Poe. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 236 CONTEMP. AMERICAN FICTION   3.0 Credit(s)
Deals with current American authors; course description varies each time the course is offered. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 237 NATURE WRITING   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the connections between our natural environment and the diverse ways we communicate our ideas, perceptions, and feelings about that environment. Writers work to discover a rhetorical stance and voice that effectively evokes the natural world in prose. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 239 SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMER. LIT.   3.0 Credit(s)
Course description varies each time the course is offered. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 240 EARLY AMERICAN BLACK LIT.   3.0 Credit(s)
African-American literature from 1790 to 1900, including the slave narratives, the mockingbird school, and folk poetry. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 241 BLACK WRITERS IN AMERICA   3.0 Credit(s)
A consideration of Black writers from Dunbar and Chesnutt to the present. Study of Harlem Renaissance writers including Wright, Ellison, Hayden, Brooks, Tolson, Baldwin, Baraka, and the Black arts movement. Emphasis on the relation of the works to traditional images of Blacks in America and to themes found in American literature as a whole. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 242 AMERICAN WOMEN OF COLOR   3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines the writings of African- American women. The specific authors change each time the course is offered. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 243 AMERICAN ETHNIC FICTION   3.0 Credit(s)
One of the most dramatic and vibrant developments in American literature to occur after World War II has been the outpouring of multicultural writers.  In this course we will read fiction by a variety of multicultural or Ethnic American (Jewish, Irish, Italian, Native, African, Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, Middle Eastern) writers and examine how these different groups in the United States grapple with the culture, language, and values of the dominant culture.  We will look at the influence of race, class, and gender, with special consideration to identity and community in this fiction. Prerequisite: TAKE FYS
Offered: All Semesters All Years

ENG 244 STUDIES IN WORLD LIT.   3.0 Credit(s)
Explores works both inside and outside the Western canon. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 249 SP TOPICS IN MULTICULT. LIT   3.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 261 MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LIT.   3.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 285 SEMINAR ON A SINGLE AUTHOR   3.0 Credit(s)
Studies the works and criticism of a single author. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department