ENG 236 British Literature 1200-1700 Read more about ENG 236 British Literature 1200-1700 An intense examination of the literature and especially changes in the forms of national literature of Britain from 1200 to 1700. Authors read may include the Gawainpoet, William Langland, Julian of Norwich, Christopher Marlowe, Mary Wroth, John Donne, Ben Jonson and Aphra Behn. LIT, FWC, WI
ENG 234 The English Novel Read more about ENG 234 The English Novel The genre examined through critical reading of novels from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including works by Austen, Dickens, Stevenson, Ford, Conrad, and Woolf. HWC LIT, WI
ENG 232 Modern Drama Read more about ENG 232 Modern Drama Students will study drama and modernity using a history-of-ideas approach. Works by Ibsen, Shaw, Chekhov, Pirandello, Hellman, Glaspell, Williams, O’Neill, Brecht, Beckett, and Breuer will illustrate developments in dramatic history from nineteenth-century realism to the Theater of the Absurd and postmodernism. Technical discussions will focus on genre and stagecraft. ART, LIT, WI
ENG 230 Film Analysis and History Read more about ENG 230 Film Analysis and History Students will analyze film using the elements of mise en scène. Technical discussions of film production and reception are supported by in-class screening of movies by such directors as Keaton, Welles, Hawks, Ford, Hitchcock, De Sica, Kazan, Lee, and Scott. Discussion topics include film history, genres, and criticism. ART, WI
ENG 224 Literature for Adolescents Read more about ENG 224 Literature for Adolescents Survey of current literature written for students of junior and senior high school age. Critical reading of classic works, with emphasis on those which are frequently included in secondary school curricula. Selected works of criticism. LIT
ENG 216 Major Writings of the European Tradition II Read more about ENG 216 Major Writings of the European Tradition II Students will read authors whose works have strongly influenced modernity: e.g., Wollstonecraft, Austen, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Woolf, and Freud. Discussion topics include the romanticism-realism conflict, the critique of patriarchy, and the emergence of the unconscious. HWC, LIT, WI
ENG 215 Major Writings of the European Tradition I Read more about ENG 215 Major Writings of the European Tradition I Students will read authors whose works have strongly influenced Western culture: e.g., Sappho, Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Boccaccio, and Voltaire. Discussion topics include the history of ideas, the construction/critique of a canonical tradition, and the self in society. FWC, LIT, WI
ENG 214 American Literature II Read more about ENG 214 American Literature II The development of American literature from the later nineteenth century through the modern and contemporary periods. Emphasizes the intellectual, social, and aesthetic concerns that have shaped American fiction, poetry, and drama. HWC, LIT, WI
ENG 213 American Literature I Read more about ENG 213 American Literature I The intellectual and cultural milieu of the American “New World” as revealed in the prose and poetry—including that of Native Americans and African-Americans—produced between the early 1600s and the mid-1800s and culminating in a distinctive American literature. HWC, LIT, WI
ENG 204 Women Writers Read more about ENG 204 Women Writers Examines themes, techniques, goals, and historical contexts of women’s literary production. LIT, WS, WI