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College of Arts and Sciences
Creative Writing
Introduction to Creative Writing
CAS EN 202
An introduction to writing in various genres: poetry, fiction, plays. Students' work discussed in class. Designed mainly for those with little or no experience in creative writing. Enrollment limited. 4 cr.
Literature
Readings in Modern Literature
CAS EN 125
Representative fiction, poetry, and drama from modern Continental, British, and American writers. Primarily for students not concentrating in English. Not recommended for students with TOEFL below 600. 4 cr.
Seminar in Literature
CAS EN 220
Topic for Summer 2009: Reading the American Rebel. What historical, cultural, and economic sources inform acts of American rebellion? How is rebellion determined by race, gender, and class? Readings by Dickinson, Ginsberg, Chopin, Salinger, Williams; movies starring Dean and Brando. Satisfies CAS WR 150 requirement. 4 cr.
Major Authors I
CAS HU 221
Introduction to the major works of ancient and medieval literatures that influenced later Continental, English, and American literature: the Bible, Homeric epic, Greek tragedy, Vergil's Aeneid, and Dante's The Divine Comedy. Required of concentrators in English. 4 cr.
Survey of British Literature I
CAS EN 322
Literature from the beginnings to the Restoration. Includes works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and others. Required of concentrators in English. 4 cr.
Survey of British Literature II
CAS EN 323
Literature from the Restoration to the end of the nineteenth century. Required of concentrators in English. 4 cr.
Shakespeare I
CAS EN 363
Six plays chosen from the following: Richard II, Henry IV (Part I), Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Winter's Tale. 4 cr.
Shakespeare II
CAS EN 364
Six or seven plays chosen from the following: Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest. 4 cr.
Detective Fiction
CAS EN 373
The origins and development of the detective and crime genres in England and America. 4 cr.
Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
CAS EN 377
Prereq: junior standing or consent of the instructor. A study of the major writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Explores how they proclaimed a renewal of racial consciousness and cultural pride, and how they challenged racial and cultural barriers in American society. Meets with CAS AA 507. 4 cr.
The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
CAS EN 545
The American novel evolved during the nineteenth century. Questions of race and nationality became intertwined with ideas about democracy and religion within fictional narratives. This course examines American works that addressed these pressing issues of national identity and cultural formation. 4 cr.
Studies in Modern Literature
CAS EN 582
Topic for Summer 2009: Anglo-American Poetry. Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Auden, with excursions into Crane, Lawrence, Stevens, Williams, and others. 4 cr.
Studies in African American Literature
CAS EN 587
Topic for Summer 2009: From New World to New Negro: Major African American Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The writings of Wheatley and Equiano, who discussed slavery and Middle Passage; of Douglass and Jacobs, who constituted a slave-narrative tradition; and of Washington, Hopkins, Griggs, and Harper, who wrote about racial uplift in the post-slavery era. Meets with CAS AA 502 A1. 4 cr.
Studies in Literary Topics
CAS EN 596
Topic for Summer 2009: Linguistic Approaches to Literature. Practical linguistic analysis of a range of English literary texts from the sixteenth century to the present. Cultivates a fundamental skill: how to identify and describe language structures and relate them to interpretation. Considers poetic styles of Swift, Wordsworth, and Hardy and the prose styles of Woolf, Lawrence, and Fitzgerald (among others). 4 cr.
