ENGLISH 302 History of the English Language (1) The English language from earliest times to today. Examples from Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English literature.

ENGLISH 304 Practical Rhetoric (1) Theory of writing and of skills that underlie good writing. Intended to meet special problems of teachers in secondary schools and universities.

ENGLISH 310 Studies in Literary Genres (1) Content varies. Samples: satire, biography, epic, pastoral. With department consent, may be repeated for credit with change of topic.

ENGLISH 311 Studies in Poetry (1) Such elements of poems as diction, imagery, rhythm, structure; how they work with the subject matter to determine the individual poem, and how they guide interpretation of a poem.

ENGLISH 312 Studies in Drama (1) Content varies. Samples: Ibsen, Shaw, and Pirandello; women and modern drama. With department consent, may be repeated for credit with change of topic.

ENGLISH 313 Studies in Fiction (1) Content varies. Samples: the subversive hero in 20th- century literature; experiments in modern literature. With department consent, may be repeated for credit with change of topic.

ENGLISH 320 Medieval English Literature (1) Representative works in their intellectual and cultural contexts.

ENGLISH 321-1,2 Old English (1) (1) First Quarter: The Old English language and readings in prose and poetry. Second Quarter: Beowulf and other poetry. Prerequisite for 321-2: 321-1.

ENGLISH 322 Medieval Drama (1) A study of the fifteenth-century English mystery cycles, miracle plays and moralities in their cultural context.

ENGLISH 323-1,2 Chaucer (1) (1) First Quarter: The Canterbury Tales. Second Quarter: Troilus and Criseyde and other works.

ENGLISH 324 Studies in Medieval Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: courtly romance; fabliaux; poems in manuscripts; Arthurian tradition; women in medieval culture.

ENGLISH 325 Spenser (1) Spenser's major poetry with emphasis on The Faerie Queene.

ENGLISH 328 Studies in Tudor and Elizabethan Literature (1) Content varies. Normally covers poetry and prose of late 16th- and early 17th-century England. Samples: Marlowe, More, Skelton, Sidney and Spenser, Tudor/Elizabethan lyricists.

ENGLISH 330 Renaissance and 17th-Century Literature (1) Representative works in their intellectual and cultural contexts.

ENGLISH 331 Renaissance Poetry (1) English poetry from the Elizabethan period to 1660, including such writers as Wyatt, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, and the Cavalier poets.

ENGLISH 332 Renaissance Drama (1) English plays of the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean periods, including such writers as Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, and Ford.

ENGLISH 334-1,2 Shakespeare (1) (1) First Quarter: Principal plays up to 1600. Second Quarter: Principal plays after 1600.

ENGLISH 335 Milton (1) Milton's poetry; emphasizing the prose that illuminates his poetical and intellectual development.

ENGLISH 338 Studies in Renaissance Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: Marvell, Herbert, and Vaughan.

ENGLISH 339 Special Topics in Shakespeare (1) Content varies. Samples: late comedies and romances; illusion and the social order; Shakespeare on the Elizabethan stage.

ENGLISH 340 Restoration and 18th-Century Literature (1) Representative works in their intellectual and cultural contexts.

ENGLISH 341 Restoration and 18th-Century Poetry (1) Dryden, Pope, and other poets of the period 1660-1744.

ENGLISH 342 Restoration and 18th-Century Drama (1) English drama from 1660 to the end of the 18th century.

ENGLISH 343 18th-Century Prose (1) Johnson, Swift, Gibbon, Burke, Wollstonecraft, and other nonfiction prose writers.

ENGLISH 344 18th-Century Fiction (1) Defoe, Richardson, Smollett, Fielding, Sterne, Fanny Burney, Mrs. Radcliffe, and Austen.

ENGLISH 348 Studies in Restoration and 18th- Century Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: biography and autobiography; literary careers; literature and social criticism.

ENGLISH 350 19th-Century British Literature (1) Representative works in their intellectual and cultural contexts.

ENGLISH 351 Romantic Poetry (1) Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

ENGLISH 353 Studies in Romantic Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: Blake-poet and painter; romanticism and revolution; Byron and the Byronic.

ENGLISH 356 Victorian Poetry (1) Principal British poets from Tennyson to Hopkins, with attention to cultural context and developments in form.

ENGLISH 357 19th-Century British Fiction (1) Important and representative novels written between 1800 and 1900.

ENGLISH 358 Dickens (1) Representative major works of Charles Dickens.

ENGLISH 358-CN Dickens (1) Representative Major Works of Charles Dickens. 

ENGLISH 359 Studies in Victorian Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: Victorian autobiography; novels of the Brontë sisters; Victorians and some inheritors.

ENGLISH 360 20th-Century British and American Literature (1) Representative works in their intellectual and cultural contexts.

ENGLISH 361-1,2,3 20th-Century Poetry (1) (1) (1) First Quarter: Major British poets such as Yeats, Eliot, Auden. Second Quarter: Major American poets from Frost and Robinson to Hart Crane. Third Quarter: British and American poetry since World War II.

ENGLISH 363-1,2 20th-Century Fiction (1) (1) First Quarter: British writers such as Conrad, Ford, Forster, Greene, Huxley, Lawrence, Waugh, and Woolf. Second Quarter: American writers such as James, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and West.

ENGLISH 365 Studies in Postcolonial Literature (1) Themes, antecedents, and contexts of selected literature produced in societies now emerging from colonial rule. Samples: autobiography; initiation narratives; magical realism; Derek Walcott; Salman Rushdie.

ENGLISH 366 Studies in African-American Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: black women's fiction; the slave narrative in modern African-American fiction; the Harlem Renaissance; vernacular theories of African-American literature.

ENGLISH 367 Postwar British Fiction (1) Representative British novels since 1945, including such writers as Orwell, Greene, and Waugh.

ENGLISH 368 Studies in 20th-Century Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: boundaries of modernism (Kafka, Joyce, Nabokov); E. M. Forster; Willa Cather.

ENGLISH 369 African Literature (1) Twentieth-century African literature in English.

ENGLISH 370 American Literature before 1914 (1) Intellectual and cultural contexts of American literature from the Puritans to 1914. Such writers as Bradford, Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Henry Adams.

ENGLISH 371 American Novel (1) Writers such as Cooper, Alcott, Chopin, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Twain, James, Howells, Crane, Dreiser, and Wharton; from the beginning to 1914.

ENGLISH 372 American Poetry (1) Writers such as Bradstreet, Freneau, Bryant, POE, Whitman, Dickinson, Robinson, and Frost; from the beginning to 1914.

ENGLISH 378 Studies in American Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: radicalism in American literature; Mark Twain; cultural imagination of turn-of-the-century America.

ENGLISH 383 Studies in Theory and Criticism (1) Topics in theory and criticism related to the study of literature and culture. May be repeated for credit with a different topic.

ENGLISH 385 Topics in Combined Studies (1) Special topics in literature and related disciplines. Content varies. Samples: opera and literature; mythology and the arts.

ENGLISH 386 Studies in Literature and Film (1) Content varies; comparison of representative films and literary works with emphasis on aesthetic principles and social and historical contexts they share.

ENGLISH 410 Introduction to Graduate Study (1) Principles, techniques, and consequences of representative modes of literary inquiry exemplified in works of contemporary scholarship and criticism. Required of Ph.D. students.

ENGLISH 411 Studies in Poetry (1) Content varies. Topics may include prosody or other formal aspects of poetry; comparative study of poems from different historical periods; consideration of poetics and the relationship of poetry to other cultural activities.

ENGLISH 412 Studies in Drama (1) Content varies. Samples: theories of comedy; the history play.

ENGLISH 413 Studies in the Novel (1) Content varies. Samples: Richardson and Fielding; Gothic fiction; Dickens; theory of the novel from James to Kermode.

ENGLISH 422 Studies in Medieval Literature (1) Literature of the medieval period, including, but not necessarily restricted to, literature written in Middle English.

ENGLISH 431 Studies in 16th-Century Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: Elizabethan romance; Spenser; Sidney.

ENGLISH 434 Studies in Shakespeare and the Early Drama (1) Content varies. Samples: Shakespeare's history plays; Marlowe and Shakespeare.

ENGLISH 435 Studies in 17th-Century Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: Donne's poetry; Milton.

ENGLISH 441 Studies in 18th-Century Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: Swift, Blake, and sensibility from Rousseau to Austen.

ENGLISH 451 Studies in Romantic Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: the long poem in the Romantic period; Byron and the Byronic.

ENGLISH 455 Studies in Victorian Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: Victorian poetics; biography and autobiography; Anglo-American literary relationships.

ENGLISH 461 Studies in Contemporary Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: James Joyce; experiments in fiction.

ENGLISH 465 Studies in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1) Content varies. Colonial and postcolonial literatures of Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and other formerly colonized cultures, with attention to theoretical accounts of colonial and postcolonial culture.

ENGLISH 471 Studies in American Literature (1) Content varies. Samples: Henry James; historical backgrounds of colonial literature; Whitman.

ENGLISH 481 Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism (1) Topics in literary theory and theories related to the study of Anglophone literature and culture, focusing on issues of methodology and interpretation. Content varies.

ENGLISH 490 Independent Reading (1, 2, or 3) Permission of department required. May be repeated for credit.

ENGLISH 499 Independent Study (1, 2, or 3) Permission of instructor and department required. May be repeated for credit.

ENGLISH 512 Editing and Electronic Texts (1) Methods of editing and research, incorporating advances in computer technology such as hypertext, Internet access to library catalogues, digitizing of images, and textual scanning devices.

ENGLISH 570 Seminar on Teaching College Composition (1) An introduction to theories, practices and controversies in the teaching of writing in colleges and universities, within the context of various definitions of literacy in American culture.

ENGLISH 590 Research (1, 2, or 3) Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.

Related Courses in the Program in Comparative Literary Studies
COMP LIT 382-1,2,3 History of Literary Criticism (1) (1) (1)
COMP LIT 383 Special Topics in the Theory of Literature and Literary Criticism (1)
COMP LIT 481 Studies in Literary Theory (1)
COMP LIT 487 Studies in Literature and the Arts (1)
COMP LIT 488 Studies in Literature and the Disciplines (1)