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Course Requirements - Literature before 1800

Medieval Literature

ENG 2450 - Irish Literature to 1880

Description: A study of Irish literature from its origins in the world of Celtic mythology, epic and saga through the development of Anglo-Irish literature. Writing enriched. Irish studies requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Summer 2007, Fall 2006, Summer 2006

ENG 3000 - Intro to OE Lang & Lit

Description: Old English literary works in translation and original language.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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ENG 3101 - Early Brit Lit Translatn

Description: Literature of England, Ireland, and Scotland from the beginnings through the 15th century.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1999, Spring 1998, Spring 1997, Spring 1996

ENG 3150 - Chaucer

Description: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and additional works.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004

ENG 3190 - Medieval Brit/Ir Lit. & Cult.

Description: Specific topics vary each semester.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

Renaissance Literature

ENG 3201 - English Renaissance

Description: Non-dramatic literature of the English Renaissance.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002

ENG 3250 - Shakespeare

Description: A selection of plays by Shakespeare.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007

ENG 3290 - Renaissance Br/Ir Lit. & Cult.

Description: Specific topics vary each semester.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006

ENG 3300 - 17th Cent Poetry & Prose

Description: The poetry of Donne, Jonson, Lanyer, Herrick, Herbert; essays, sermons, journals, letters, pamphlets of Bacon, Donne, Milton, and others.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003, Spring 2002

ENG 3350 - Milton

Description: English poems and selected prose on issues of gender, politics, religion, culture. Women's studies requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Spring 2004

Restoration & 18th Century Literature

ENG 2320 - Forms of the Novel

Description: The nature of the novel as an art form in British, American, and European works.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Fall 2001, Spring 2001

ENG 3350 - Milton

Description: English poems and selected prose on issues of gender, politics, religion, culture. Women's studies requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Spring 2004

ENG 3420 - 18th Century British Novel

Description: Writings by Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, and others; and the Gothic novel of terror.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2002

ENG 3430 - Restor & 18th cent Drama

Description: Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Fall 1999, Spring 1998

ENG 3450 - Dryden Swift & Pope

Description: The study of the principal works of the major Neo-Classical writers.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2002

ENG 3490 - 18th c. Brit/Ir Lit. & Culture

Description: Specific topics vary each semester.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006