English

English Literature to 1500 is a study of Old and Middle English literature (exclusive of Chaucer) in translation. The course includes significant authors, works, themes, and genres of the two periods as well as important movements and events affecting that literature.

This course is a study of selected works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The concentration will be on his two major works: The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. While the concentration of classroom discussion will be on the literary texts, an understanding of various 14th century concerns will be integral to the course.

The story of Arthur and his followers has fascinated people for almost fifteen hundred years. In the middle ages it was the most significant secular subject in “history” and literature, and its appeal to the imagination has persisted through the centuries down to our own time. This course is an introduction to the story of the origins and development of the Arthurian legend as it has been presented in history and literature

English Literature to 1500 is a study of Old and Middle English literature (exclusive of Chaucer) in translation. The course includes significant authors, works, themes, and genres of the two periods as well as important movements and events affecting that literature.

A study of literature from around the world. Course of study may look at specific geographical areas, for example Africa, or may more typically combine literatures from a variety of cultures.

A study of selected texts and themes that reflect and illuminate the English Renaissance. These may include the Utopia, the Faerie Queen, Paradise Lost, the drama of Marlowe and Ben Jonson, and the poetry of John Donne.

Designed especially for students preparing to teach at the secondary school level. A combination method and subject matter course planned to evaluate and read the literary works which best relate to the high school student’s experience and training.

A study of Shakespeare’s major plays.

This course will focus on the works of a single important author (in fiction or poetry) in either British or American literature. The author’s body of work will be considered alongside literary and cultural conditions that contribute to the significance of the writer. Writers may include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Flannery O’Connor, and others.

A study of eighteenth-century culture through literature. This look at the Enlightenment may include both English and American pieces as well as selected European works.

A study of nineteenth-century literature. Topics may include Romanticism, Victorian literature and genre studies such as the novel.

A study of major movements in American literature from 1800–1900 (Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism and Naturalism). Authors studied may include Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twain, James, Chopin, Wharton and Dubois.

Study of major movements and authors in British fiction since the end of the nineteenth century.

Study of major movements and authors in American fiction since the end of the nineteenth century.

Development of poetry since 1900, including such figures as Yeats, Eliot, Moore and Brooks.

Topics in creative writing by women. Topics may include American Feminist Literature; Reading and Writing Women, women writers within certain periods and cultural contexts; and specific themes such as women and art.

A study of particular time periods, geographical areas, cultural milieus, writers or themes. Examples of topics are Southern Literature, Gendered Frontiers and Americans in Paris.

A concentrated study of a chosen literary genre. Sample topics include tragedy, the novella and modern drama.

A study of the principles of rhetoric, syntax, and modern usage. Emphasis in writing assignments will be on expository forms. Assigned readings from the classical and modern rhetoricians.

A study of the important texts of literary criticism, as well as the practice of evaluation and literary analysis. Attention will also be given to the study of research methods.

A study of the development and principles of the English language.

A linguistic approach to the study of English grammar with concentration on traditional, structural, and transformational grammars.