DESCRIPTIONS ENG 4201 Film and Video Production. Credits: 4; Prereq: ENG 1131 or ENG 3112 or ENG 3121 or ENG 3122 or instructor's permission. A seminar on the independent and experimental uses of small-format film and video production. ENG 4251 National Cinemas. Credits: 4; Prereq: ENG 1131 or ENG 3112 or ENG 3121 or ENG 3122 or instructor's permission. Variable topics. A study of the films of one or more of the historically important national cinemas (e.g., American, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese). ENG 4905 Independent Study. Credits: 1 to 3; Prereq: Permission of instructor and of the department head or her delegate; may be repeated with change of topic up to a maximum of 9 credits. For advanced students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research under guidance. ENG 4936 Honors Seminar. Credits: 3; Prereq: Recommendation by a departmental adviser; may be repeated with a change of topic up to a max- imum of 12 credits. Open to English majors who have maintained an overall upper-division GPA of 3.5. Small seminar classes study limited topics in English and American literature or film. Two of these seminars and one semester of Honors Thesis (ENG 4970) determine if honors will be "high" or "highest". ENG 4970 Honors Thesis Project. Credits: 2; Prereq: Completion of one semester of ENG 4936; recommendation by a departmental adviser. Open to English Honors Students. Student selects an English faculty member to act as director for an independent research project which culminates in the preparation of an Honors Thesis. The thesis grade and GPA will determine whether "high honors" or "highest honors" should be desig- nated upon graduation. Abstracts and one copy of the thesis must be delivered to the Honors Office in 352 Little Hall at least three days prior to one week to graduation. English Literature (See also ENGLISH-GENERAL for other courses in English Literature) ENL 2012 Survey of English Literature: Medieval to 1750. Credits: 3 A course offering instruction in critical reading of and critical writing about authors representing the peri- od's significant literary forms and themes. This course satisfies 3 hours of the General Education requirement in Composition or Literature and the Arts and the Communication-Computation requirement. (C, L) ENL 2022 Survey of English Literature: 1750 to the Present. Credits: 3 A course offering instruction in critical reading of and critical writing about authors representing the peri- od's significant literary forms and themes. This course satisfies 3 hours of the General Education requirement in Composition or Literature and the Arts and the Communication-Computation requirement. (C, L) ENL 2330 Introduction to Shakespeare. Credits: 3 A course designed to introduce students to the pleasure and wisdom of Shakespeare's plays. Various approach- es will be used: movie versions of the plays, staging of scenes from the plays, and discussion. This course satis- fies 3 hours of the General Education requirement in Composition or Literature and the Arts and the Communication-Computation Rule requirement. (C, L) ENL 3112 The English Novel: 18th Century. Credits: 3 Includes works by such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Smollett. ENL 3122 The English Novel: 19th Century. Credits: 3 Includes works by such writers as Scott, Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and Hardy. ENL 3132 The English Novel: 20th Century. Credits: 3 Includes works by such writers as Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Greene, and Waugh. ENL 3154 20th Century British Poetry. Credits: 3; Prereq: ENC 1101 or ENC 1102. A general study of the most prominent British poets of the 20th Century with particular emphasis on Yeats, Lawrence, Graves, Eliot, Sitwell, Dylan Thomas, and Ted Hughes. ENL 3210 Medieval English Literature. Credits: 3 A survey of representative works of the Middle English period such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Malory's Morte D'Arthur, and selec- tions from medieval drama and lyric poetry. ENL 3230 The Age of Dryden and Pope. Credits: 3 Selections from the best works of such writers as Dryden, Congreve, Addison, Swift, and Pope. ENL 3231 The Age of Johnson. Credits: 3 A study of the best works from Johnson, Boswell, Reynolds, Goldsmith, Blake and others writing between 1740-1800. ENL 3241 The Romantic Period. Credits: 3 Selections from the best works of such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Shelley, and Keats. ENL 3251 Victorian Literature. Credits: 3 Selections from such writers as Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold. ENL 4220 Renaissance Literature: 16th Century. Credits: 3; may be repeated for credit with a change of topic. Variable topics, 1485-1603, such as Spenser, the rise of English prose, the development of English verse, the age of sonnets, Elizabethan fiction. Consult depart- ment for description of offering. ENL 4221 Renaissance Literature: 17th Century. Credits: 3; may be repeated for credit with a change of topic. Variable topics, 1603-1700, such as Milton, the evolu- tion in English prose styles, sacred and secular lyrics, the literature of paradox. Consult department for description of offering. ENL 4273 Twentieth Century British Literature. Credits: 3 A variable topics course which may include major works of drama, poetry, or prose from twentieth-cen- tury Britain. ENL 4311 Chaucer. Credits: 3 Reading and critical study of Chaucer's poetry. Emphasis will be on the Canterbury Tales or Troilus and Criseyde at the option of the instructor. ENL 4333 Shakespeare. Credits: 3 Shakespeare: A study of selected verse and plays from throughout Shakespeare's career, including comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Linguistics ENS 2441 English Language and Writing for Foreign Students. Credits: 3 A composition course designed to teach the basics of expository writing. May be taken by foreign students as the equivalent of ENC 1101. (C) LIN 2670 English Grammar. Credits: 2 A course in the basics of traditional English grammar designed as a complement to our composition and creative writing courses, as a review for those stu- dents who will take preprofessional exams, and as a basic course for students interested in improving their knowledge of English. Does NOT satisfy the six-hour General Education requirement in English. LIN 3680 Modem English Structure. Credits: 3 A study of the grammar of current English from the viewpoint of modem linguistics. Literature (See also AMERICAN LITERATURE, ENGLISH- GENERAL, and ENGLISH LITERATURE for other lit- erature courses.) LIT 2030 Monuments of Poetry. Credits: 3 An introductory course in fundamental forms, influ- ential styles, and significant changes in the traditional perception of the scope and intention of poetry as rep- resented by such monumental figures as Donne, Mil- ton, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Browning, and Yeats. (Satisfies 3 hours of the General Education requirement in English or Humanities and the Com- munication-Computation Rule requirement.) (C, L) LIT 2110 Survey of World Literature: Ancient to Renaissance. Credits: 3 A course offering instruction in critical reading of and critical writing about authors representing the peri- od's significant literary forms and themes. This course satisfies 3 hours of the General Education requirement in Composition or Literature and the Arts and the Communication-Computation requirement. (C, I, L) LIT 2120 Survey of World Literature: 17th Century to Modem. Credits: 3 A course offering instruction in critical reading of and critical writing about authors representing the peri- od's significant literary forms and themes. This course satisfies 3 hours of the General Education requirement in Composition or Literature and the Arts and the Communication-Computation requirement. (C, I, L) LIT 3003 The Forms of Narrative. Credits: 3 A dose reading and critical analysis of representative forms and styles of narrative, with the major objective of improving the student's ability to study narrative structures and theories of narrative. LIT 3031 Studies in Poetry. Credits: 3 A variable topics course providing an in-depth study of some particular genre such as the lyric, epic, sonnet, or of developments in periods of literatures such as medieval, American, or African. LIT 3041 Studies in Drama. Credits: 3 A variable topics course providing an in-depth study of some particular genre such as comedy, tragedy, or of developments in periods such as the Elizabethan/Jacobean, Restoration and Modem. LIT 3043 Studies in Moder Drama. Credits: 3 Representative selections from continental, British, and American playwrights. tt Grading is on S-U basis only.