English
Note: the courses on this page reflect Summer Term 2008 offerings.
Please check back on December 15 for a list of courses available during Summer Term 2009.
College of Arts and Sciences
Creative Writing
CAS EN 202 Introduction to Creative Writing
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.
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Literature
CAS EN 220 Seminar in Literature
The development of Gothic fiction, considering the following: Why do Gothic villains continue to fascinate? How does the genre affect our understandings of gender, race, class, and nationality? Readings by Walpole, Lewis, Poe, and Wilde. Satisfies CAS WR 150 requirement. 4 cr.
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CAS HU 221 Major Authors I
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.
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CAS EN 322 Survey of British Literature I
Literature from the beginnings to the Restoration. Includes works by
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and others. 4 cr.
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CAS EN 323 Survey of British Literature II
Literature from the Restoration to the end of the nineteenth century.
Required of concentrators in English. 4 cr.
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CAS EN 363 Shakespeare I
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.
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CAS EN 364 Shakespeare II
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.
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CAS EN 377 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
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.
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CAS EN 529 Romantic Age I
Readings in the "First Generation" of British Romantic authors,
selected from the following: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Godwin, Burke, Wollstonecraft,
and Radcliffe. Attention to political, cultural, and social contexts. 4 cr.
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CAS EN 587 Studies in African American Literature
Topic for Summer 2008: 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.
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CAS EN 588 Studies in African American Literature
Topic for Summer 2008: From New Negro to Postmodernism: Major African American Writers of the
Twentieth Century. The writings of DuBois, who reflected on the New Negro; of Toomer and Larsen,
who described the Harlem Renaissance; and of Wright, Ellison, Baraka, and Morrison,
who represented naturalism, social realism, Black Arts, and postmodernism. Meets with CAS AA 502 B1. 4
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CAS EN 594 Studies in Literature and the Arts
Topic for Summer 2008: The Question of the Real in Fiction and Film.
In fiction by Chekhov, Poe, Tolstoy, and Kafka, and films directed by Reed, Ray,
Richardson, Schlesinger, and Lynch, we'll explore questions of the “real” and
the “unreal.” 4 cr.
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CAS EN 596 Studies in Literary Topics
Topic for Summer 2008: 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.
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