Courses

ENG 220 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1603   3.0 Credit(s)
Major works of British poetry and prose, beginning with Old English and Beowulf and expanding through the literature of the Middle Ages with special emphasis on Chaucer and Elizabethan poets. Some drama, exclusive of Shakespeare, is included. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

ENG 223 SHAKESPEARE   3.0 Credit(s)
Explores a wide variety of plays from a literary as well as a theatrical perspective, with emphasis on Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and the relationship of his plays to their historical and cultural context. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters Contact Department

ENG 224 17TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE   3.0 Credit(s)
Examines the works of Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, some of the lesser-known metaphysical and Cavalier poets, and Milton. Prose writings of Browne, Burton, and Bunyan are also studied. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 225 RESTORATION & 18 CENT. LIT.   3.0 Credit(s)
Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson are read, as well as Restoration dramatists (Congreve, Etherege, Wycherley) and early novelists (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding). Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ENG 227 BRITISH VICTORIAN LITERATURE   3.0 Credit(s)
Explores the literature of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, Eliot, Newman, Ruskin, Pater, Swinburne, and others. Focuses on major writers of the period (1830-1901) beginning with the poetry and concluding with studies in the Victorian novel. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

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