ENGLISH


culminates in the preparation of an Honors Thesis. An
abstract and one copy of the thesis must be delivered
to the Honors Office in 140 Tigert Hall by the deadline
specified by the Honors Office each semester.
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 methods of
reading and writing about significant works of the
period. This course satisfies 3 hours of the General
Education requirement in Composition or Humanities
and the Gordon Rule requirement. (C, H)
ENL 2022 Survey of English Literature: 1750 to the
Present.
 Credits: 3.
A course offering instruction in critical methods of
reading and writing about significant works of the
modem period and the principles underlying modern
culture. This course satisfies 3 hours of the General
Education requirement in Composition or Humanities
and the Gordon Rule requirement. (C, H)
ENL 2330 Introduction to Shakespeare.
 Credits: 3.
 A course designed to introduce students to the plea-
 sure and wisdom of Shakespeare's plays. Various
 approaches will be used: movie versions of the plays,
 staging of scenes from the plays, and discussion. This
 course satisfies 3 hours of the General Education
 requirement in Composition or Humanities and the
 Gordon Rule requirement. (C, H)
 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.
 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, lyric poetry, mystical
 writings, and writings by and about women.
 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; may be repeated for credit with a change of
topic up to a total of 6 credits.
Selections from the best works of such writers as Blake,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Shelley, and Keats.
ENL 3251 Victorian Literature.
 Credits: 3; may be repeated for credit with a change of
topic up to a total of 6 credits.
Selections from such writers as Tennyson, Browning,
and Arnold. This course examines the beliefs, anxi-
eties, world-views, and paradoxes of Victorian culture
through the poetry, fiction, drama, visual arts, and
critical theory of a few representative figures, investi-
gating the social and cultural assumptions which
underlie the artists' approaches to their themes as well
as the themes themselves.
ENL 4220 Renaissance Literature: 16th Century.
 Credits: 3; may be repeated for credit with a change of
topic up to a total of 6 credits.
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 up to a total of 6 credits.
 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. May be repeated with change of content up
 to 9 credits.
 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 typically be on both the Canterbury
 Tales and Troilus and Criseyde with some attention to
 the minor works.
 ENL 4333 Shakespeare.
 Credits: 3.
 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. Prereq: Permission of the director of writ-
 ing programs.
 A composition course designed to teach the basics of
 expository writing. May be taken by foreign students
 as the equivalent of ENC 1101. (C)
 ENS 2443 Writing About Literature for Foreign and
 ESL Students.
 Credits: 3. Prereq: Permission of the director of writ-
 ing programs.
 A composition course designed to help ESL stu-
 dents write about literature. To serve as the equivalent
 of ENC 1102. (C, H)
 LIN 3670 English Grammar.
 Credits: 3.
 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 three-
 hour general education requirement in English.


LIN 3680 Moder English Structure.
 Credits: 3.
A study of the grammar of current English from the
viewpoint of modem linguistics.
Literature
LIT 2030 Monuments of Poetry.
 Credits: 3.
An introductory course in interpreting poems by assess-
ing their formal elements and by placing poems in dia-
logue with one another. May include in-depth study of
significant poets such as Shakespeare, Blake, Dickinson,
Yeats, H.D., Hughes and Sexton. (Satisfies 3 hours of the
general education requirement in composition or
humanities and the Gordon Rule requirement.) (C, H)
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 the Communication-Computation require-
ment and 3 hours of the general education require-
ment in composition, humanities or International
Studies and Diversity. (C, I, H)
LIT 2120 Survey of World Literature: 17th Century to
Modern.
 Credits: 3.
 A course offering instruction in critical reading of and
 critical writing about authors representing the period's
 significant literary forms and themes. This course satis-
 fies the Gordon Rule requirement and 3 hours of the
 general education requirement in composition, human-
 ities or International Studies and Diversity. (C, I, H)
 LIT 3003 The Forms of Narrative.
 Credits: 3.
 A close 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; May be repeated with change of content up
 to a total of 9 credits.
 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; May be repeated with change of content up
 to a total of 9 credits.
 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 Modem Drama.
 Credits: 3; May be repeated once with change of con-
 tent up to a total of 6 credits.
 Representative selections from continental, British,
 and American playwrights.
 LIT 3173 Jewish Literature.
 Credits: 3; May be repeated once with change of con-
 tent up to a total of 6 credits.
 A variable content course in aspects of the Jewish liter-
 ary experience, from the biblical narrative and classical
 tales to Yiddish and Hebrew literature, the modem
 European novel, and American Jewish fiction. (H, I)
 LIT 3313 Moder Science Fiction.
 Credits: 3.
 An interdisciplinary approach to American and British
 science fiction. May also include science fiction film.
 Some historical background but concentrates on twen-
 tieth-century writers such as Orwell, Clarke, Asimov,
 Heinlein, Herbert, Vonnegut, LeGuin, and Gibson.


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