English Department Course Descriptions

Summer 2005

FIRST SESSION, 2005

ENGL 11 English Composition and Rhetoric (3).  Required of all students except those exempted by placement tests.  Students analyze and create writings that define social, cultural, and professional communities. Formerly ENGL 1.

ENGL 12 English Composition and Rhetoric (3).  Required of all students except those exempted by placement tests.  Students analyze and create arguments. Formerly ENGL 2.

ENGL 20 British Literature, Chaucer to Pope (3). Required of all English majors. Survey of Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose. Late afternoon section, four days per week.

35N Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction: Writing Memoir (3). A course in reading and writing creative nonfiction, focusing on memoir. Late afternoon section, four days per week.

ENGL 28 Major American Authors (3).  Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A study of approximately six major American authors drawn from Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Clemens, Dickinson, James, Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, O'Neill, Faulkner, or others.

ENGL 43 The English Novel (3). The English novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

ENGL 52 Chaucer (3).  Chaucer's development as an artist as revealed in his poetry. Night section, four days per week.

ENGL 85 Afro-American Literature since 1950 to the Present (3). Survey of Afro-American literature from 1950 to the present. Ellison, Baldwin, Jones, Brooks, Hayden, Gaines, and others.

ENGL 392 Non-Thesis Option (Var.).

ENGL 393 Master's Thesis (Var.).

ENGL 394 Doctoral Dissertation (Var.).

ENGL 397 Directed Readings (Var.).

 

SECOND SESSION, 2005

ENGL 11 English Composition and Rhetoric (3).  See description in First Session. 

ENGL 12 English Composition and Rhetoric (3).  See description in First Session.

ENGL 23W Introduction to Fiction Writing (3).  An examination of the basic techniques of fiction, with related writing exercises involving elements such as point of view, characterization, and dialogue.  Class discussion of student exercises and readings in short fiction.  Late afternoon section, four days per week.

ENGL 24 Contemporary Literature (3). Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation.

ENGL 25W Introduction to Poetry Writing (3).  In addition to writing poems, students will examine the basic elements of poetry, such as imagery, figurative language, sound repetition, rhythm, and other formal aspects.

ENGL 45 The English Drama to 1642 (3). The English drama from the beginning to 1642.

ENGL 58 Shakespeare (3). Study of twelve to fifteen repersentative comedies, histories, and tragedies.

ENGL 82 American Literature from 1930 to the Present (3).  Representative authors from 1930 to the present.

ENGL 83 The American Novel (3). The American novel through World War II. Hawthorne, Melville, Clemens, James, Anderson, Hemingway, Faulkner, and others.

ENGL 88 Southern American Literature (3). An introduction to the Southern Literary Renascence of the twentieth century: poems and fiction by Faulkner, Wolfe, Wright, Toomer, O'Connor, Percy Styron, Jarrell.

ENGL 188 Southern American Literature (3). The literature of the South, with special attention to the Southern Literary Renascence of 1930 - 1950.

ENGL 392 Non-Thesis Option (Var.).

ENGL 393 Master's Thesis (Var.).

ENGL 394 Doctoral Dissertation (Var.).

ENGL 397 Directed Readings (Var.).