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Prerequisite: Completion of English 1102 and one 2000-level English with a grade of C or higher (ENGL 2100, 2110,
2111, 2112, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2130, 2131, or 2132) and sophomore status.
This course will acquaint students with the vast richness of women’s literature. Students will read, interpret and write
about a variety of prose, poetry and drama written by women. Students will gain deeper insights into women’s issues and
experiences and the cultures that have influenced them—through engagement with women’s literature, questioning and
understanding the complexities of identity and text formations. Students will not only consider the element of gender
and its implications, but also examine other pertinent issues including class, ethnicity and sexuality and their roles in
shaping the texts and our understanding of them.
ENGL3330 - Studies in the American Renaissance (3)
Prerequisite: Completion of English 1102 and one 2000-level English with a grade of C or higher (ENGL 2100, 2110,
2111, 2112, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2130, 2131, or 2132) and sophomore status.
An exploration of American writing from the Early Republic through 1880: this course will study writers across a range
of genres, origins and regions who first gave the United States its literary voice. Students will consider the historical,
political, aesthetic and cultural aspects of works that may come from social and political movements, popular fiction,
religious history and literary history.
ENGL3343 - Studies in African American Literature (3)
Prerequisite: Completion of English 1102 and one 2000-level English with a grade of C or higher (ENGL 2100, 2110,
2111, 2112, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2130, 2131, or 2132) and sophomore status.
This course examines texts that reflect varied African-American life experiences and considers their engagement with
the rest of the American/World literary tradition. Students will study fictional and non-fictional works to explore the
racial, gender, social, cultural and political constructions that have historically figured into African Americans' literary
imagination and informed their material conditions. Students will also learn the conventions, terms and movements that
will enable them to engage critically with African American literary expression
ENGL 3350 – Ancient Literature to 1500 (3)
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 and Sophomore Status
This course surveys a wide range of Western and Eastern Literatures written between the time period extending from
the Ancient Middle East through Ancient Greece and Rome, China’s Early and Middle Periods, India’s Golden Age,
Islam’s Golden Age and Medieval India and Europe. Representative works from these periods may include Gilgamesh,
the Old and New Testaments, The Iliad and the Odyssey, the Confucian Analects, the Bhagavad-Gita, The Aeneid, the
Koran, The Divine Comedy, The Decameron, Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales.
ENGL3436 - Victorian Literature (3)
Prerequisite: Completion of English 1102 and one 2000-level English with a grade of C or higher (ENGL 2100, 2110,
2111, 2112, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2130, 2131, or 2132) and sophomore status.
This course will cover major texts, authors and themes of the British Victorian Period. Students will engage with authors
such as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, the Bronte sisters and Oscar Wilde. Genres may include novels in a range of
modes (e.g. realist, detective and gothic fiction), poetry, short stories, nonfiction and drama. In addition to examining
major cultural influences, for example Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and British Imperialism, students will
consider the legacies of the Victorian era.
ENGL 3450 – Renaissance Literature (3)
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 and completion of one 2000 level literature survey
This course explores the major authors of the Western world and the genres, themes and movements reflected in their
works during the period from approximately the 15
th
to the 17
th
centuries. We will explore the literature of the period in
the contexts of intellectual, historical, scientific and cultural developments such as the rise of humanism, the
Reformation, metaphysics and scientific empiricism. Authors studied may include Ficino, Picco della Mirandola,
Erasmus. Machiavelli, More, Bacon, Cervantes, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, Descartes, Donne,
Marlowe, Webster and Milton.
ENGL3561 - Studies in the Literature of the Americas (3)
Prerequisite: Completion of English 1102 and one 2000-level English with a grade of C or higher (ENGL 2100, 2110,
2111, 2112, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2130, 2131, or 2132) and sophomore status.
In this course students will discuss the Literature of the Americas from pre-Columbian times to the present. Students
will investigate how discourses of race, religion, nation, gender and ethnicity shaped the region’s myths of origin and its