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Course Requirements - Literature mostly after 1800

American Literature to 1900

ENG 4001 - Major Amer Writers I

Description: The masterpieces of selected American writers from early times to the Civil War era.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2006

ENG 4500 - American Slave Narrative

Description: Slavery as a central paradox of American history and literature with emphasis on race and gender. Readings by Doublass, Brent, Stowe, Morrison, and others. Previous course work in American literature is recommended. Diversity requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003

ENG 4501 - Amer Transcendentalism

Description: An intensive analysis of Emerson, Thoreau, and other Transcendentalists.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2004, Fall 2002, Fall 2000, Fall 1996

ENG 4505 - Concord Writers

Description: A in-depth examination of the major works of and interactions between Concord's most celebrated writers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson, and Louisa May Alcott.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Fall 2003

ENG 4510 - 19th Cent Amer Poetry

Description: American poetry from its beginning to Emily Dickinson.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2002, Spring 2000

ENG 4515 - American Gothic

Description: The nature and evolution of horror writing in America from the eighteenth-century to today.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2003

ENG 4520 - American Novel to 1895

Description: The genesis of the American novel.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2001, Spring 2000

ENG 4590 - Am. Lit. & Cult. before 1900

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

American Literature after 1900

ENG 2301 - Lit of Science Fiction

Description: Science fiction as a significant genre. Writing enriched.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2004

ENG 2510 - Black Literature: Novel

Description: Novels published during Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and throughout the 20th century. Writing enriched. Diversity 1 requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2003, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000

ENG 2515 - Black Literature: Drama

Description: Major works of the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the present. Diversity 1 requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Fall 2003, Spring 2000, Spring 1995

ENG 2520 - Black Lit: Short Story

Description: Short fiction by Chesnutt, Hurston, Petry, Baldwin, McPherson, Williams, Walker, Morrison, Butler, and other writers of the 20th century. Diversity requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004

ENG 2530 - Harlem Renaissance

Description: A study of the major works of African American literature written during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005

ENG 4002 - Major Amer Writers II

Description: Masterpieces of the chief American writers since the Civil War.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007

ENG 4040 - American Short Story

Description: Development of the short story in America from Washington Irving to the present.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006

ENG 4500 - American Slave Narrative

Description: Slavery as a central paradox of American history and literature with emphasis on race and gender. Readings by Doublass, Brent, Stowe, Morrison, and others. Previous course work in American literature is recommended. Diversity requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003

ENG 4515 - American Gothic

Description: The nature and evolution of horror writing in America from the eighteenth-century to today.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2003

ENG 4605 - Amer Poetry: 1900-1950

Description: American poets of the first half of the twentieth Century, including Robinson, Frost, Stevens, Cummings, Williams, Millay, Pound, Eliot, and others.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Fall 2002, Spring 2001, Spring 1999

ENG 4615 - Amer Poetry since 1950

Description: American poets since 1950, including Lowell, Plath, Sexton, Snodgrass, Ginsberg, Rich, Snyder, Baraka, and others.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2001, Spring 2001

ENG 4620 - American Novel 1895-1950

Description: Representative novelists from Crane to Steinbeck.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2004

ENG 4621 - Amer Novel since 1950

Description: Novels of the late Modern Period and of the early Post- modern period.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2004

ENG 4630 - American Drama to 1960

Description: Major plays of the period.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Fall 2007, Summer 2007

ENG 4631 - Eugene O'Neill

Description: The life and plays of Eugene O'Neill.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Fall 2003

ENG 4635 - Contemporary American Poetry

Description: Focused study of contemporary American poetry emphasizing gender, ethnicity, aesthetic principles or genre.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005

ENG 4636 - Contemp Amer Women's Poetry

Description: The work of American women poets from the last forty years. Diversity 2 requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Spring 1999

ENG 4640 - Contemp Amer Women's Lit

Description: Writings by women from WW II to the present. Works by Ann Petry, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Kathy Acker, Bobby Ann Mason, and others. Diversity 2 requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000

ENG 4645 - Post Modern Amer Fiction

Description: Experimental narratives by American writers of the last four decades. Works by Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Don DeLillo, Joanna Russ, and others.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Summer 2003, Spring 2002, Summer 2001

ENG 4646 - Race & Ethnicity: Amer Novel

Description: Introduction to a variety of canonical texts that treat questions of race and ethnicity. the critical role of language and literature play in determining how racial categories are constructed and deconstructed.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Summer 2002, Spring 2001, Spring 2000

ENG 4690 - Amer. Lit. & Cult. after 1900

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

19th Century British/Irish Literature

ENG 3501 - Early Romantic Writers

Description: Wordsworth, Coleridge and other writers of the first half of the Romantic period. Writing intensive.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003, Spring 2002

ENG 3502 - Later Romantic Writers

Description: Byron, Shelley, Keats and other writers of the second half of the Romantic period.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2003, Fall 2001, Fall 1998

ENG 3504 - 19th Cent Brit Women Writers

Description: Writings by important nineteenth-century British women novelists and poets, including Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2003, Spring 2000

ENG 3505 - Poetry & Prose 1830-1865

Description: The poetry and prose of Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Newman, Arnold, and other writers of the era.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2004, Spring 2004

ENG 3506 - Poetry & Prose 1865-1900

Description: The poetry and prose of Ruskin, Rossetti, Swinburne, Hopkins, Pater, Hardy, and others.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000

ENG 3520 - 19th Cent British Novel

Description: Selected novelists from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005

ENG 3525 - Dickens

Description: Selected novels by Charles Dickens.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2001

ENG 3590 - 19th c. Brit/Ir Lit. & Culture

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

British/Irish Literature after 1900

ENG 2460 - Irish Poetry since Yeats

Description: The major Irish poets of the last fifty years, including an initial assessment of the importance of W. B. Yeats's career, and treatment of poets such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Thomas Kinsella, and John Montague. Writing enriched. Irish studies requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 1999, Fall 1997, Fall 1995

ENG 2470 - Modern Irish Drama

Description: A study of the major Irish playwrights of the twentieth century including: Yeats, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Synge, O'Casey, Beckett, and Friel.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005

ENG 2490 - Topics in Irish Studies

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

ENG 2500 - Irish Renaissance

Description: Selected readings in the drama and fiction literature of Ireland in the 20th century. Writing enriched. Irish studies requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Summer 2007, Spring 2007, Summer 2006

ENG 3610 - Modern British Poetry

Description: British poetry from 1900 to the present, with emphasis on Hopkins, Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Muir, Edith Sitwell, K3 Dylan Thomas, and Philip Larkin.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Summer 2005, Summer 2004, Summer 2003

ENG 3615 - James Joyce

Description: A study of the novels and short stories of James Joyce, with concentration on Ulysses. Writing enriched. Irish studies requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005

ENG 3616 - Irish American Drama & Film

Description: Depictions of the American Irish in popular drams and films from colonial times to the present. Popular Irish- American actors and their appeal, the Irish-American musical stage tradition, and the cross-over from popular drama to popular films such as John Ford's The Quiet Man and The Informer. Writing enriched. Irish studies requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005

ENG 3620 - Modern British Novel

Description: The British novel from the turn of the century to World War II.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2002

ENG 3621 - Contemp British Novel

Description: The development of the novel since World War II.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2004

ENG 3630 - Modern British Drama

Description: British drama from the 1890s to the Theatre of the Absurd.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Fall 1999, Summer 1998, Spring 1998

ENG 3690 - Br/Ir Lit. & Cult. after 1900

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